One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

Oracle's latest big idea for big data aims to eliminate data silos with new software connecting the dots between the Oracle Database, Hadoop and NoSQL. Written by Rachel King, Contributor July 15 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

Strata Conference + Hadoop World - Simba Technologies Inc. - the industry's Open Database Connectivity expert for Big Data solutions - announced today that it is rolling out its Big Data ODBC ...

Part 1 of CRN's Big Data 100 looks at the ... offers the same scalability benefits as NoSQL without having to rewrite SQL-based ... The company develops a series of visualization tools ...

As the SQL and NoSQL worlds continue to converge in the pursuit of comprehensive Big Data analytics solutions, a Silicon Valley start-up wants to provide a bridge between the two with RESTful APIs.

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of unstructured, disparate data. NoSQL ...

In 2010, Netflix began moving its data to Amazon Web Services. The next step was to replace its Oracle database with Apache Cassandra, an open source NoSQL database known for its scalability and ...

Back in 2009, SQL databases began emerging, mainly to handle modern Web-scale databases. They could handle massive amounts of data; tackle the exponential growth of newly created digital content ...