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IBM buys NoSQL cloud provider Cloudant
2014-02-24 17:59:40| InfoWorld: Top News
Adding more muscle to its cloud operations portfolio, IBM is acquiring hosted NoSQL database provider Cloudant. Based in Boston, the privately held Cloudant offers a hosted version of the Apache CouchDB open source data store. Its own version, called BigCouch, can be run across multiple servers, providing a way to build and maintain an extremely large and fast data store for a front-end application.
NoSQL, Part 2: Grappling With Big Data
2014-01-14 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Back in 2009, SQL databases began emerging, mainly to handle modern Web-scale databases. They could handle massive amounts of data; tackle the exponential growth of newly created digital content from social media sites and websites; and help build value around data by connecting the dots -- no small task when a plethora of data is continuously being created.
NoSQL, Part 1: Coming of Age
2014-01-07 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Amadeus, which handles bookings for 95 percent of flights worldwide, uses a variety of NoSQL databases to deal with the massive amounts of data that it handles. Amadeus enables 3.7 million bookings on more than 700 airlines, 110,000 hotel properties, and 30 rental car agencies each day. "NoSQL databases are part of our technology stack to deal with Big Data," said VP Dietmar Fauser.
NSA's Accumulo NoSQL store offers role-based data access
2013-10-31 21:51:25| InfoWorld: Top News
With its much-discussed enthusiasm for collecting large amounts of data, the NSA naturally found much interest in the idea of highly scalable NoSQL databases.
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NoSQL database vendor MongoDb raises $150M in new funding round
2013-10-07 14:20:23| InfoWorld: Top News
In a sign of the growing enterprise interest in new technologies for big data applications, NoSQL database vendor MongoDB has raised $150 million in a fresh round of funding from several major firms including Salesforce.com, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. With the new funds, MongoDB has so far raised $231 million from investors since launching in 2007. The latest round is one of the largest single funding rounds for a database company and makes MongoDB one of the best-funded big data startups in the market. MongoDB used to be known as 10Gen but changed its name last month.
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