Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly ...

The emergence of globally scalable online services for social networks, streaming content, retail, payment systems and other business uses significantly changed application infrastructure requirements ...

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 ...

This is an excerpt from Chapter 15 from the book NoSQL for Mere Mortals by Dan Sullivan, an independent database consultant and author. In the chapter, Sullivan takes a look at the four primary types ...

NoSQL databases have emerged to address the limitations of traditional relational systems when managing massive, heterogeneous datasets generated by modern applications. They dispense with rigid ...

MongoDB stock has almost doubled in value this year, benefiting from market optimism over a moderating rate environment and surging interest in AI. MongoDB differentiates itself from legacy relational ...

The world of the database is one of those areas that sees lots of people obsessing over details that to outside observers would seem trivial. Graph, NoSQL, SQL, distributed—so many choices. So, when ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...