Two sessions focused on the popular column-based NoSQL data store Cassandra, which was created by Facebook, and later used by high-volume sites such as Twitter. Although neither of the sessions was ...

Oracle had a series of new products to announce at its OpenWorld conference. It also announced its move into Big Data with its new Big Data appliance and the launch of its new Oracle NoSQL database.

The big data landscape includes many different buckets. Hadoop and MapReduce programming applies to offline data, where everything is processed in a batch. The NoSQL category is rather coarse and ...

A new report from Forrester predicts the big data market growing at nearly 13% rate over the next five years, with “non-relational” platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL segments growing nearly twice as ...

Oracle has released a major new version of its NoSQL implementation, promising that it will allow easier management of 'high-velocity transactional data' such as that generated by social media and ...

This morning Oracle officially announced Oracle NoSQL, a product our editor Alex Williams broke the news about last week. It turns out that Oracle NoSQL will be a separate product from Oracle ...

As the SQL and NoSQL worlds continue to converge in the pursuit of comprehensive Big Data analytics solutions, a Silicon Valley start-up wants to provide a bridge between the two with RESTful APIs.

Big data is comprised of the well-known 3 V’s: volume, velocity, and variety. Traditionally, when there has been an influx of new data, systems have scaled up. Recently though with the variety and ...

NoSQL might well be called “the little database engine that could.” It is quietly proving it is on track as Big Data transitions to cloud-based data storage and management. NoSQL is increasingly ...

MarkLogic was founded in 2003 as a relational database alternative, long before people who can’t recognize a SQL statement began to regularly wax poetic about 'big data.' MarkLogic’s core product is ...