“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted ...

In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the ...

Recent venture funding and acquisition announcements from key Hadoop and NoSQL startups are drawing even more attention to the Big Data space. Hadoop and NoSQL companies are growing in numbers, in ...

Actian, the hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, announced the newest version of the Actian NoSQL database, combining object technology and enterprise-class database features to ...

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Does the World Really Need Another Hadoop Distribution? Not all Hadoop packages offer a unique distribution of the Hadoop core, but all attempt to offer a differentiated value proposition through ...