The days of the single source of truth, one database for the entire enterprise, are over. Now even a relatively simple mobile application demands more than one database. The good news is that we have ...

The emergence of globally scalable online services for social networks, streaming content, retail, payment systems and other business uses significantly changed application infrastructure requirements ...

MongoDB's growth is driven by Atlas, which saw a revenue share increase from 23% in 2019 to 70% in 2025, with ARPU growing at 20.54%. MongoDB ranks sixth overall in the database market but is the ...

This is an excerpt from Chapter 15 from the book NoSQL for Mere Mortals by Dan Sullivan, an independent database consultant and author. In the chapter, Sullivan takes a look at the four primary types ...

The NoSQL databases featuring massive scalability developed for and used by the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have created a whole new category. Amazingly (or not) most of the ...

NoSQL databases have emerged to address the limitations of traditional relational systems when managing massive, heterogeneous datasets generated by modern applications. They dispense with rigid ...

Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...