Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

In this new world of scale-out, clustered NoSQL databases that process thousands — even millions — of transactions per second, good cache management is critical for good performance. Service I/O ...

Oracle is introducing version 4.0 of its NoSQL database. First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java ...

When NoSQL first hit the IT consciousness in 2009, an explosion of NoSQL databases seemed to appear out of thin air. Some of these contenders had in fact been around for some time, with others thrown ...

Survey shows IT decision makers value the technology profile of a database above all factors for use in microservice architectures The IDC InfoBrief, “The Impact of Application Modernization on the ...

New case study examines how AcuityAds analyzes nearly 5 billion ad impressions each day with the Aerospike database to determine the best online ad placements and pricing MOUNTAIN VIEW, ...

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This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are key value databases? A key value database is a collection of paired ...

Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and ...