“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Since last summer, Couchbase has been working to marry a derivative of SQL to a document database based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). This week, Couchbase released a 4.1 update to Couchbase ...

Looking to bolster query capabilities for its NoSQL database, Couchbase this week is trumpeting the arrival of its N1QL “next-generation” declarative query language, which brings SQL-like querying to ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.