Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce, open ...

In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed the ...

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...

Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used ...

NoSQL databases are becoming increasingly popular for analyzing big data. There are very few NoSQL solutions, however, that provide the combination of scalability, reliability and data consistency ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

In the worlds of Big Data, NoSQL and relational databases, Splice Machine's name doesn't come up that often. But a closer look at the company's product, architectural approach and CEO put them on my ...

A start-up founded by academic researchers has created the NoSQL Toolbox, a method for choosing the best database for a given job. The tool comes from German company Baqend GmbH, which provides a ...

It’s commonly asserted—and generally accepted—that the era of the “one-size-fits-all” database is over. We expect that enterprises will use a combination of database technologies to meet the distinct ...