Tag: NoSQL

Why is the non-RDBMS popular?

Ok, this is a softball question for anyone inside the big data space.  However, it does come up as a real question when talking to business owners and application users.   This is a quick high-level description of NoSQL/NewSQL, why it’s …

Why Facebook and the NSA love graph databases

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.

Graph databases play six degrees of separation to find real connections. See how IT teams can use the database approach for businesses.


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Is there a benefit to understanding how your users, suppliers …

Database performance tuning: Five ways for IT to save the day

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.

IT teams can play heroes when database performance issues disrupt applications. Try these five tips for performance tuning before there’s a problem.


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When database performance takes a turn for the worse, IT …

Free Professional Development in Hadoop and NoSql

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

A wonderful trend we have not only noticed but taken advantage is free online education. In the academic world, MIT has been offering it for years with OpenCourseWare, and …

MongoDB – Storing Big Data Documents

If a Big Data set (or smaller data) is in the form of documents, then it’s difficult to store them in a traditional schema-defined row and column database. Sure, you can create large blob fields to hold large arbitrary chunks …