Hadoop and NoSQL databases share some similarities, but the platforms typically live within different levels of the big data spectrum. Now MapR Technologies is working to break those barriers down by ...

A new report from Forrester predicts the big data market growing at nearly 13% rate over the next five years, with “non-relational” platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL segments growing nearly twice as ...

Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used ...

When it comes to capturing and analyzing data, IT departments have more choices today than ever before. And choice is a good thing. However, in order to pick the right tool for the job, you need to ...

The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...

MapR Technologies, one of the top ranked distributors for Hadoop, has announced that MapR-DB is now available for unlimited production use in the freely-downloadable MapR Community Edition. MapR-DB is ...

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 ...

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, ...

diginomica is largely a business focused technology property. We are less concerned with the minutiae of the technology and lean more towards what it delivers. But in recent weeks, we've been spending ...

Oracle is making a play for the 'big data' market - capturing, storing and analysing the vast amounts of unstructured data that businesses gather every day. At Oracle's OpenWorld event in San ...

The database's 1.0 version clears away legacy API clutter and improves documentation as it takes on Cassandra and MongoDB Corks popped earlier this week in the halls of the Apache Foundation, as its ...

Cohesity today said it acquired Imanis Data, which provides data management and backup for Hadoop and NoSQL workloads and databases, for an undisclosed amount. These capabilities, along with new ...