Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

Database upstart ScyllaDB Inc., said today it has closed on a $43 million round of funding as it looks to take on rivals such as MongoDB Inc. by providing an easier way for enterprises to scale their ...

The traditional approach of providing data access to applications via remote database servers is not ideal for microservices, but what other option is there? And while SQL provides standard access to ...

Aerospike, Inc., today unveiled a new unified, AI-native application development experience that makes it simple for both humans and AI coding assistants to confidently prototype, integrate, deploy, ...

FairCom EDGE IoT Database is a fast, transaction-controlled database designed specifically for IoT applications that run at or near the data collection point. It can be easily embedded or integrated ...

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 quickly ...

NoSQL databases: Cassandra Facebook needed something fast and cheap to handle the billions of status updates, so it started this project and eventually moved it to Apache where it’s found plenty of ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

The days of the single source of truth, one database for the entire enterprise, are over. Now even a relatively simple mobile application demands more than one database. The good news is that we have ...