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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a “We don’t need no stinking SQL” attitude to a “Can I please have some SQL with that?” philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new NoSQL database offering today that, as the name implies, is powered by the company’s Bigtable data storage system, but with the added twist that it’s ...

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 ...