16 NoSQL, NewSQL Databases To Watch

Why are businesses increasingly choosing alternatives to the leading relational database management systems when grappling with new data types and extreme scale? We put that question to Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company, which is using a NoSQL database, Riak, ...

Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data Analytics

BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service ...

Types and Examples of NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases are growing with very rapid speed because of their exciting features like more flexibility and scalability, schema-free architecture, easy replication support, simple API, consistent / BASE (not ACID), support for big data and more. What is NoSQL database? NoSQL is ...

Apache Spark for Big Analytics

by Thomas Dinsmore, Director of Product Management at Revolution Analytics The emergence of Apache Spark is a key development for Big Analytics in 2013.   Spark, an Apache incubator project, is an open source distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Hadoop.  ...