After announcing the technology at its OpenWorld conference last month, Oracle has launched its much anticipated NoSQL database.

Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is enterprise ready and practically ACID. Could this be the NoSQL data store for the buttoned-down business crowd? [Originally published on ...

Oracle Has Big Opportunity In NoSQL Despite the positives of a NoSQL database in this rapidly expanding unstructured data environment, the technology is still nascent.

Oracle is introducing version 4.0 of its NoSQL database. First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java ...

As the leading provider of relational database software, it's hardly surprising that Oracle initially gave little or no credence to the NoSQL movement that emerged in 2009. Indeed, an Oracle white ...

Oracle’s view of the SQL versus NoSQL landscape is one in which there is plenty of opportunity for both. Despite the popularity of NoSQL for unstructured data, SQL is not disappearing anytime soon.

Oracle has tried to break into this field with its own Oracle NoSQL database and Oracle Big Data Appliance, but the real action remains in the world of open source, according to DB-Engines.

But those new players are not the only NoSQL platforms out there. You will find offerings from most database suppliers, including the two largest, Microsoft and Oracle.

The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...