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Couchbase’s Engaging Plan for Customer Victory

At its annual user conference last week, Couchbase had the requisite major product launch (Couchbase Server 5.0), customer name-dropping (United Airlines, Pokemon Go, Marriott Hotels), and high-profile guest (Don Chamber Read more…

Scalability Answers Found in the NoSQL Family Tree

When it comes to big genealogical databases, they don't come any bigger than the one at FamilySearch. So when the arm of the Church of Latter-day Saints started to reach the limits of its Oracle data store, it branched o Read more…

Analytics Remains Top Data Tech, Survey Says

Artificial intelligence is all the rage, but as companies continue to struggle with data complexity characterized by a variety and number of data sources, analytics remains the most important technology for squeezing val Read more…

MongoDB Looks to Future Following IPO

MongoDB CEO and President Dev Ittycheria rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite this morning as shares in the local New York City company started trading under the ticker symbol MDB. With about $200 million in pr Read more…

New CEO, Same Strategy for Couchbase

When a CEO is replaced, it's often because a major shift in business strategy is required. But when Matt Cain took over the top job at Couchbase this spring, Cain committed to the same general plan followed by his predec Read more…

Database Shift to Cloud Gains Momentum

The merger of database services with cloud and other datacenter infrastructure continues to accelerate with the latest acquisition of a database-as-a-service vendor by the Israeli cloud infrastructure provider Stratoscale. Read more…

JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off

Yesterday marked the formal launch of JanusGraph, a new Linux Foundation project formed to continue development of the TitanDB graph database. JanusGraph is a fork TitanDB, the distributed graph database that was orig Read more…

CrateDB Tackles Machine Analytics with Scale-Out SQL Database

Developers who want to analyze big, fast-moving machine data without the complexity of a NoSQL database have another option in CrateDB, an open source, scale-out SQL database that just became generally available today. Read more…

A Peek Inside DataStax’s New Cloud Strategy

DataStax revealed this week that it's getting into the Apache Cassandra cloud business with the acquisition of DataScale. While the cloud pivot certainly diversifies DataStax's business, some speculate it may be a respon Read more…

Forrester’s Crowded NoSQL Wave Shows Abundant Options

The increasingly crowded NoSQL database market promises to give customers lots of storage options for next-gen and big data applications. That's one of the takeaways from the recent Forrester Wave for Big Data NoSQL solu Read more…