Couchbase is a prominent NoSQL database that, along with MongoDB, explicitly targets Big Data applications. Although based on technology from the Apache CouchDB document store project, Couchbase ...

If this were the 20th century, we’d store secure documents by shoving them into an iron safe and spinning the combination lock. But in the 21st century — the information age — where are we supposed to ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a document store database? Document stores accommodate data that has a ...

While relational databases rely on rigid structures, document databases are much more natural to work with and can be used for a variety of use cases across industries. A document database (also known ...

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It’s possible to hook into document store events to monitor (and even modify) behavior. There are a number of document store events that can be monitored: Before changes are issued to the database ...

Relational databases store information in strictly regulated tables and columns. MongoDB is a document store, which stores information in collections and documents. The primary difference here is that ...