Not content with merely owning the internet search and advertising spaces, Google’s tentacles continue to spread into other areas. Android’s growing dominance in mobile operating systems is obvious. But one relatively under the table innovation by Google is their Bigtable…
This week’s installment in the DATAVERSITY series on the NoSQL movement covers Graph databases. While it can be argued that most of the NoSQL database types are just different flavors of the key-value store, Graph databases bring more of their…
One thing that struck me while researching and writing the DATAVERSITY article on Key-value databases — part of their series on the NoSQL movement — was the ubiquitous nature of the key-value pattern throughout computing. The basic task of accessing…
As I continue researching the NoSQL database movement for a series of articles I am writing for DATAVERSITY, I am struck how the differences between the different types of NoSQL data stores can blend together. Since NoSQL is more of…