The ColumnFamily databases are inspired by Google’s internally-used BigTable. Other examples include Cassandra, HBase (Hadoop‘s database), and Hypertable. Cassandra is the implementation used in this ...

Are you struggling to get a handle on your NoSQL databases? Are you concerned about the security, performance, and scalability of your data infrastructure? Then you need to read "Taking Control of ...

Introduction to Big Data (DT102) provides the fundamentals needed to allow organizations to turn data into actionable information. Starting with an overview of big data, which covers key enterprise ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...