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Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce, open ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

As any developer knows, the technology industry is defined by innovation discoveries and new emerging solutions. One of the most popular growing movements in current times is the switch to NoSQL ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...