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How SQL++ Makes JSON More Queryable

For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn't "speak SQL." But no Read more…

Redis Speeds Towards a Multi-Model Future

Redis is best known as a key-value store – a very fast, in-memory key-value store. But the folks developing the technology at Redis Labs have big plans to grow the NoSQL database's repertoire, and along with it the cap Read more…

With Eye on Oracle, MariaDB Buys Clustrix

MariaDB Corp. continued its buying spree this week with the acquisition of distributed database pioneer Clustrix, adding what the buyer said is a scale-out capability running on commodity hardware or in the cloud. Ter Read more…

Data Manager Eyes NoSQL in the Cloud

Data management vendors continue to target the growing number of cloud-native NoSQL database applications while shifting their platforms to Docker containers to handle microservices-based apps. Among them is Rubrik, w Read more…

The Future of Storage: Software

In the previous story in this series, we looked at innovations occurring in storage hardware. Now it's time to turn our attention to what's going on in storage software, where innovation continues to push the boundaries Read more…

MongoDB Cloud Cases: Three Studies

During the recently MongoDB World conference, Datanami was invited to talk shop with three customers – Braze, Ticketek, and Longbow Advantage – that have implemented the NoSQL database in production cloud environment Read more…

Q&A With a MongoDB CTO

When it comes to database companies, few have had as good a run as MongoDB over the past year. With an IPO last fall and a cloud business that's booming, the New York City firm is flying high. This week at the MongoDB Wo Read more…

A MongoDB Secret Weapon: Aggregation Pipeline

MongoDB is best known for creating a document database that Web and mobile developers love to use. But developers and analysts alike may be interested in a little-known MongoDB feature called the aggregation pipeline. Wh Read more…

MongoDB Fleshes Out Mobile and Cloud Strategies

As its name implies, MongoDB likes to do big things. But with today's unveiling of MongoDB Mobile at MongoDB World in New York City, the company is delivering a diminutive database that runs on mobile devices. It also an Read more…

CrateDB Raises Cash, Upgrades Machine Data Platform

Startup Crate.io’s strategy of advancing an open source scale-out SQL database as an alternative to complex NoSQL versions for handling fast-moving machine data appears to be paying dividends with the close of an early Read more…

Anaconda: Data Science Exiting Hadoop for the Cloud

Data scientists are embracing cloud-native frameworks as they move on from on-premises data infrastructure previously dominated by Hadoop, concludes a survey on the state of data science. The shift is driven in part b Read more…

Web-Based Query Tool Touches Multiple DBs

Developers today use databases almost like languages. They might start on a good old relational database like MySQL, but then requirements shift a bit, so they sprinkle a little MongoDB on top. The data starts to build, Read more…

A Modern Way to Think About Your Next-Generation Applications

Many organizations are on the path to digital transformation. This transformation is imperative to survive and thrive in this new digital and intelligent world. According to a McKinsey report, “Seventy percent of ex Read more…

NoSQL Startup FaunaDB Has Twitter Roots

A Bay Area startup touting a transactional NoSQL database has disclosed early investments by financial services backers and Google’s investment arm. Fauna Inc. claimed Wednesday (March 21) its $25 million Series A f Read more…

Full ACID Support Means ‘Game Over’ for Relational, MongoDB Says

MongoDB today revealed that it's now supporting multi-document ACID transaction guarantees with version 4.0 of its database. When it becomes generally available later this year, MongoDB says it will have eliminated the l Read more…

Cloud Looms As Answer to All Things Analytic

Think this whole cloud thing is just a passing fad? That view may have been permissible 10 years ago. But as organizations try to put their IT goals in clearer focus for 2018, it's becoming increasingly evident that the Read more…

MariaDB, Tableau Partner on Multiple Workload Types

MariaDB Corp., the open source database, has been integrated with Tableau Software's business intelligence and visual analytics platform. The combination means Tableau users could run both operational and transactional w Read more…

Backing Up Big Data? Chances Are You’re Doing It Wrong

The increasing pervasiveness of social networking, multi-cloud applications and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services continues to drive exponential growth in big data solutions. As businesses become more data dr Read more…

This Concussion Protocol Runs on NoSQL

Wham! The receiver takes a huge helmet-to-helmet hit, courtesy of the opposing team's strong safety. He gets up, wobbles a bit, and heads back to the huddle. But is it safe for him to return to the game? If the player Read more…

African Hospitals Go Digital with NoSQL and Mobile Tech

In many parts of Africa, patient health records are still a paper-based affair, which greatly hinders the capability of public health officials to track the spread of diseases like Ebola, let alone allow a nurse to acces Read more…

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