Altoros Report Compares Two NoSQL Databases

Altoros Systems has released a report comparing the performance, in terms of latency and throughput, of two modern NoSQL database-as-a-service products, Couchbase Capella (the release as of March 2022) and MongoDB Atlas Read more…

Cassandra Gets an Indexing Upgrade

A new data storage framework for indexing on Apache Cassandra released this week by DataStax is aimed at easing adoption of cloud-native NoSQL databases by eliminating developers’ tradeoffs between scale, stability and Read more…

FoundationDB Goes Open Source

FoundationDB, the key value store-based NoSQL database designed to scale without sacrificing core ACID properties, has been released to the open source community. Apple, which acquired the NoSQL database developer in Read more…

Yahoo Unleashes HBase Transaction Manager

A transaction manager for the NoSQL database HBase has been approved as an open-source incubator project, according to project sponsor Yahoo. The HBase transaction manager dubbed "Omid" ("Hope" in Persian) is the late Read more…

Spark Makes Inroads into NoSQL Ecosystem

Apache Spark may have gained fame for being a better and faster processing engine than MapReduce running in Hadoop clusters. But the in-memory software is increasingly finding use outside of Hadoop, including integration Read more…

MemSQL Adds Spark Pipeline

A Spark "Streamliner" introduced this week by in-memory database vendor MemSQL aims to provide Spark users quick access to real-time analytics and transactions. San Francisco-based MemSQL said Wednesday (Sept. 24) its Read more…

Forrester Ranks the NoSQL Database Vendors

NoSQL databases have surged in popularity as organizations struggle to serve highly distributed Web applications, but navigating the various types of NoSQL databases and the vendors providing them has proven tricky. Shed Read more…