Amazon helped start the "NoSQL" movement. And now it's giving the cause another shot in the arm. NoSQL is a widespread effort to build a new kind of database for “unstructured” information -- the sort ...

Behind every great ecommerce website is a database, and in the early 2000s Amazon.com’s database was not keeping up with the company’s business. Part of the problem was that Amazon didn’t have just ...

Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others. The service takes ...

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Amazon announced today DynamoDB, a fully managed cloud-based NoSQL database service that builds on the company’s SimpleDB service by delivering faster, more consistent database performance to keep ...

Amazon just announced a large price reduction for its cloud-hosted NoSQL DynamoDB database service. Provision throughput capacity – that is, the number of reads and writes your application uses – now ...

After years in the waiting, Cassandra is joining open source counterparts MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB as cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). As Asha Barbaschow reported, Amazon Keyspaces ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...