Two sessions focused on the popular column-based NoSQL data store Cassandra, which was created by Facebook, and later used by high-volume sites such as Twitter. Although neither of the sessions was ...

NoSQL might well be called “the little database engine that could.” It is quietly proving it is on track as Big Data transitions to cloud-based data storage and management. NoSQL is increasingly ...

If you had any doubt that the Big Data and NoSQL database market continue to remain red hot, look no further than today’s announcement that 10gen, makers of the open source mongodb, raised a ...

If I asked you for the defining characteristic of a big data customer, you’d probably say they’re sitting on large amounts of data. If I asked for the defining characteristic of a NoSQL customer, you ...

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 ...

Big data is comprised of the well-known 3 V’s: volume, velocity, and variety. Traditionally, when there has been an influx of new data, systems have scaled up. Recently though with the variety and ...

According to the “three V’s” definition of big data (Volume, Velocity, Variety) big data is as much about the increasing rate of data requisition as it is about increasing volumes. Big data and NoSQL ...

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Led by newer kinds of databases and software for distributed storage and computing, the Big Data market is set to grow at three times the rate of the entire technology market, according to a new ...

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 ...

Cohesity also is expanding its data protection and management capabilities with native Kubernetes container and Microsoft OneDrive capabilities. Data protection software and appliance developer ...