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 ...

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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 ...

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.

Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 15 — MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced that its big data experts will present on stage throughout the week at ...