Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

In the fast-paced world of data-driven technologies, MongoDB Inc. has emerged as a powerful and flexible database platform. As organizations seek to unlock the full potential of MongoDB, data modeling ...

Tonight I’m going to a sold-out MongoDB event hosted by my company at our local startup incubator. Already, 250 have people signed up. That’s a pretty good crowd for Durham, NC, but not surprising ...

Postgres has been on a roll lately. Despite a reputation for being the older, wiser fuddy-duddy of open-source relational databases, Postgres has been running circles around MySQL in terms of growth.

This 12-part blog series is designed to answer this question by providing guidance on data modeling patterns for 12 common use cases. To help you get to a blog that can help you build now, the ...

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NoSQL continues to gain adoption, primarily due to the need for it in corporate daily operations and the freedom it provides compared to the rigid schemas associated with relational technologies. That ...

The term “NoSQL” is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...