Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

In the fast-paced world of data-driven technologies, MongoDB Inc. has emerged as a powerful and flexible database platform. As organizations seek to unlock the full potential of MongoDB, data modeling ...

Tonight I’m going to a sold-out MongoDB event hosted by my company at our local startup incubator. Already, 250 have people signed up. That’s a pretty good crowd for Durham, NC, but not surprising ...

The term “NoSQL” is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

Start coding a new database in your garage with a buddy of yours. Use JavaScript. Name it after your dog. Patent your own data model. Do not go open source. Take over the world. That is HarperDB's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Jun 01, 2015, 03:01pm EDT Jun 01, 2015, 03:07pm EDT This ...

In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison. There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL ...

Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.