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 ...

The Apache Software Foundation recently announced Apache Cassandra Release 0.6, a NoSQL database. As a reformed database architect, I was intrigued by the appearance of yet another data management ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataStax today announced the acquisition of The Last Pickle, an Apache Cassandra™ consulting and services company, for an undisclosed amount. The Last Pickle has ...

If you want to scale like Apple, you might need to consider Cassandra. Matt Asay explains. I wish I could tell you how Apple scales iTunes, iMessages, and other wildly popular services. But I can’t.

Before delving into how MongoDB and Cassandra are different, let's document what they have in common. They're both databases, obviously. More importantly, they are both examples of NoSQL databases.

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A few years back, as other NoSQL players such as MongoDB exploded on the scene, Apache Cassandra’s star was fading. The company that developed it, Facebook, had dumped it. Its community seemed to be ...

The years-long Big Data skills shortage still persists despite numerous attempts to alleviate it, resulting in high demand and high salaries for developers with NoSQL skills, especially Apache ...

In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed the ...