Not long ago, the rules for what constituted a data warehouse were fairly well defined. The schema was fixed, you could say, and was based primarily on relational database technology designed to ...

Forrester sees “non-relational databases,” such as NoSQL and Hadoop, exceeding the overall big data market (no matter than Hadoop is not a database, per se, but a framework built atop a distributed ...

Open source technology has arguably become mainstream, especially in modern databases like NoSQL and Hadoop based systems. They are unlocking huge value.

While Hadoop, a platform for big data analytics, and NoSQL, a database technology for enterprise, web, mobile, and IoT applications, may seem different, they do complement each other.

NoSQL Options Though there are dozens of NoSQL databases, I find most of them too niche for mainstream deployment. Still others take as much effort to develop for and run as Hadoop.

As for scale, the JSON add-on for the MapR-DB NoSQL data store allows for JSON databases to scale from hundreds to thousands of nodes, which is a scale Norris says that other popular document ...

Demand for big data skills are on the rise and aren't limited to just NoSQL and Hadoop but also include Python and general cloud skills.

MapR Technologies, one of the top ranked distributors for Hadoop, has announced that MapR-DB is now available for unlimited production use in the freely-downloadable MapR Community Edition. 'From a ...

Cohesity today said it acquired Imanis Data, which provides data management and backup for Hadoop and NoSQL-based workloads.

Oracle's latest big idea for big data aims to eliminate data silos with new software connecting the dots between the Oracle Database, Hadoop and NoSQL.

Before Hadoop, somebody would write custom software to do this kind of processing." It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around.

While HBase has been a key component of Hadoop, it has become its own entity in the NoSQL world, though it faces stiff competition.