Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

The NoSQL acronym suggests it's the SQL language that is the key difference between traditional relational and newer non-relational data stores. However, an equally significant divergence is in the ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Learn why, when, and how to use conflict-free replicated data types to bring strong eventual consistency to your geo-distributed applications Roshan Kumar is a senior product manager at Redis Labs.

MongoDB gained popularity with developers very early on, but serious database engineers were often skeptical about MongoDB architecture and implementation. One area that came under some criticism was ...

As developers tackle increasingly large problems, they have to store their data in more complex ways — adding a constellation of computers to house it all. But adding more computer hardware can lead ...