This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are key value databases? A key value database is a collection of paired ...

Enter the key-value store. It’s essentially a NoSQL database, but one with a highly specific purpose and a deliberately constrained design. Its job is to let you take data (a value), apply a ...

For some time, there was no clear leading key-value NoSQL database. Key-value stores place no restrictions the structure that can be stored for a given key, and, correspondingly, provide no meta data ...

Demystifying The Buzzwords Before we dive in further, let’s demystify a few of the key terms ... ground-breaking value to a large number of customers. The in memory NoSQL database space provided ...

Migrating from an RDBMS to NoSQL can improve scalability and flexibility. Explore top NoSQL databases and best practices for migrating data.

Other NoSQL databases are designed to be flexible, and focus on data models: they don’t enforce a rigid or consistent schema across stored data. These ‘document stores’ expand upon the traditional key ...

First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java Edition, a mature, high-performance embeddable database.

NoSQL databases range from key-value stores to columnar databases to document databases to graph databases. On the face of it, nothing sounds more natural or reasonable than a NoSQL database. The ...

NoSQL databases are designed to accommodate a wide variety of data models, including key-value, document, columnar and graph formats. NoSQL, which actually stands for “not only SQL,” is an ...

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can ...