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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

If I asked you for the defining characteristic of a big data customer, you’d probably say they’re sitting on large amounts of data. If I asked for the defining characteristic of a NoSQL customer, you ...

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 ...

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 keeps rising, but relational databases still dominate big data Your email has been sent NoSQL promised to upend the database market as big data forced a sea change in how we think about and ...

If you had any doubt that the Big Data and NoSQL database market continue to remain red hot, look no further than today’s announcement that 10gen, makers of the open source mongodb, raised a ...