With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new NoSQL database offering today that, as the name implies, is powered by the company’s Bigtable data storage system, but with the added twist that it’s ...

The worlds of Big Data and NoSQL overlap and coincide quite a bit. For instance Hbase, a Wide Column Store NoSQL database is often used with Hadoop, and vice-versa. Meanwhile, beyond the Wide Column ...

The use of NoSQL databases has grown rapidly over the last 3 years. NoSQL’s advantages over relational technologies in scalability, performance and data model flexibility have been a big reason.