An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities. The most ...

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever. At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...

Databases touch our lives every day. Our computers, phones and e-mail are databases. Google, Westlaw, Craigs­list, Amazon, eBay, Facebook: all big ­databases. We can’t Web-surf, make a phone call, use ...