With more than 1.5 million new ads posting every day, Craigslist users have generated over a billion records – some might even consider that ‘big data.’ What’s more, legislation demands that these ...

Though NoSQL originally developed as a flexible and agile alternative to relational database systems, non-relational databases haven’t yet gained wide acceptability in the large enterprise segment.

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

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SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

It’s commonly asserted—and generally accepted—that the era of the “one-size-fits-all” database is over. We expect that enterprises will use a combination of database technologies to meet the distinct ...

Sumo Logic research shows its customers favor AWS for building their apps, Redis for storing data, and Nginx for serving it all up If you’ve built a new app in AWS, odds are you’re running it on Linux ...