When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

While relational databases rely on rigid structures, document databases are much more natural to work with and can be used for a variety of use cases across industries. A document database (also known ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a document store database? Document stores accommodate data that has a ...

YugabyteDB extends distributed Postgres to support document database workloads, empowering developers to build next-generation apps with the consistency of a relational database, scale of document ...

For over two decades, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft relational databases were the only consistent leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems--and there were few ...