There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

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In some cases, NoSQL databases will do the trick, Microsoft researchers assert The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft ...

Microsoft has just shipped out its first-ever non-relational database on Windows Azure, which also happens to be its first database product of any kind since releasing its legendary SQL Server. Called ...

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

Microsoft announced the general availability this week of Azure DocumentDB, its NoSQL database as a service for developers and IT pros. The Azure DocumentDB service is designed to store document data ...

The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing Machinery’s ...

The researchers offer a data model and query language they call coSQL that could be used to unify NoSQL and SQL data models The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs ...