Capturing and analyzing information are only part of the big data equation. Businesses must store ingested data in a format that is accessible and resilient, yet still economical. Alongside structured machine-generated… Read more »
Plummeting RAM prices and the massive throughput requirements of big data make in-memory databases incredibly attractive. Processing enormous data sets in a fraction of the time it normally takes sounds like… Read more »
There is a fascinating shift happening right now in the database market from scale-up to scale-out architectures to meet performance demands. Translated, the choice is bigger more expensive boxes versus inexpensive… Read more »
NoSQL databases are fast becoming an essential tool for managing big data, the trick is to match the right NoSQL database to suit your application’s requirements. Read more »
There will never be one database to rule them all, in fact, the database market is shaping up to be much more complex than that, with new databases optimized for specific… Read more »
The data community sometimes appears obsessed with overthrowing decades of practice, casting relational database solutions aside in favor of newer NoSQL offerings such as Neo4J, Hbase and CouchDB. NoSQL tools are… Read more »