MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale-out ...

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...

MongoDB is a document-oriented database that accelerates applications’ development timeframe. Compared with traditional SQL databases, MongoDB allows developers to store data in a more flexible format ...

Which document database? From ease of installation and backup flexibility to index design and query capabilities, a few key differences point the way Choosing the right database for the job can be a ...

NoSQL database king MongoDB Inc., is wooing customers that want to run the Community Edition of its software in production environments with a new support option. “Our Production Support offering is ...

Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...

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MongoDB may be the most popular NoSQL database out there. Demand for the open source database is growing faster than every job skill other than HTML5, according to job search site Indeed.com. Like ...

MongoDB has raised $150 million from T. Rowe Price Associates with new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. Existing investors Intel Capital, NEA, Red Hat and Sequoia Capital also ...

MongoDB was created to help companies build databases that can span hundreds of servers in multiple data centers. But as the open source "NoSQL" database system caught on with developers, its sponsor ...