Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

NoSQL databases, such as Amazon DynamoDB can deliver performance at scale with horizontal scaling with no management overhead. A proof point for DynamoDB horizonal scaling can be seen with Amazon ...

Oracle is the world's second largest software company in the multi-billion dollar software market with revenues in excess of $37 billion and a market capitalization of approximately $175 billion. The ...

Google launched a public beta for a new global database service that features both the consistency of the relational model and the scaling and data functionality of NoSQL offerings. Called Cloud ...

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Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

MarkLogic Corp. today introduced a new service focused on enabling its namesake NoSQL database to run more efficiently in the public cloud. The offering, dubbed the MarkLogic Query Service, can ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...