Here's a look at 10 real-world NoSQL use cases, demonstrating how companies from a variety of industries are employing this relatively new database.

Alternate data models in NoSQL offerings. Lucene, Solr and ElasticSearch offer text and document indexing functions, for example to implement real-time search as users enter terms. Graph databases ...

Example use cases include networks, social media (relationship management), search, fraud detection, real-time recommendations, and digital asset management. An example of a popular graph database ...

Pascal Desmarets talks about how to perform data modeling in NoSQL databases compared to the modeling in Relational databases. ... for example, the ability to store XML indexing of human text, ...

Think of a NoSQL data model as the visual blueprint for an application — the equivalent of the CAD printout produced by an architect before building or renovating a house. Using this example, the ...

Getting started with a distributed database (or NoSQL) ... For an in-depth guide to NoSQL data modeling techniques, read this article at the Highly Scalable Blog. Engine Comparison.

NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...

Couchbase Server was actually an outgrowth of CouchDB, an open source database inspired by Lotus Notes and created by Damien Katz, who went on to continue work with Couchbase on a non-Apache model.