Most IT organizations operate under the assumption that achieving maximum application performance requires a relational database. But increasingly, a handful of NoSQL database alternatives have shown ...

In this new world of scale-out, clustered NoSQL databases that process thousands — even millions — of transactions per second, good cache management is critical for good performance. Service I/O ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aerospike Inc., the world’s fastest database, today announced that Curse Inc., one of the largest gaming information properties worldwide, relies on Aerospike’s ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

The days of the single source of truth, one database for the entire enterprise, are over. Now even a relatively simple mobile application demands more than one database. The good news is that we have ...

In this special guest feature, Slava Akhmechet of RethinkDB discusses where the industry is going in terms of real-time app development, and what the NoSQL database that powers the new wave of ...

Was it just two or three years ago when choosing a database was easy? Those with a Cadillac budget bought Oracle, those in a Microsoft shop installed SQL Server, those with no budget chose MySQL.