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 ...

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 ...

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If this were the 20th century, we’d be shoving our physical documents into an iron safe and spinning the combination lock. But, as we’re in the 21st century — the information age, where are we ...

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 ...

Marten is an open source .NET document database library that allows the storage, loading, updating and deleting of objects as documents in an underlying PostgreSQL database. Even though Marten stores ...

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 ...