In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed the ...

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Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at $32.07 after the company successfully raised $192 million in an initial ...

Dwight Merriman, Chairman and Co-founder of startup Mongo is an expert on analyzing data and believes more is better. “The easiest way to improve a prediction is to add data. You need data to infer, ...

Before delving into how MongoDB and Cassandra are different, let's document what they have in common. They're both databases, obviously. More importantly, they are both examples of NoSQL databases.

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...