In the modern world of data-driven applications we are at a fascinating point at which both fully formed products and powerful components are being offered to us at a breathtaking pace. The question ...

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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 is a graph database? Graph databases organize facts into connected bundles, ...

Oracle has just rolled out a handy new tool to help companies explore the oceans of data being consumed by technologies like Hadoop. Called the Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, the tool brings ...

When it comes to managing big data, there’s an emerging number of ways to go about things, depending on your needs for structured data, unstructured data, volume, speed and accessibility. NoSQL in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NoSQL databases promise to upend a decades old relational approach to data. But with over 100 different NoSQL options to choose ...

Oracle is shipping a new big data product called Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph. Spatial and graph analytics has been available as an option for Oracle Database for more than 10 years, and with ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...