Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are key value databases? A key value database is a collection of paired ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

Samsung-backed start-up Stellus emerged from stealth mode to announce its software defined Stellus Data Platform. This is a storage technology involving native key-value stores to create a new type of ...

Key-value databases are at the forefront of many modern data-intensive business applications – and are widely adopted across several industry verticals including e-commerce, online gaming, content ...

Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and ...

In a relational database approach, regardless of whether one is considering persisted data or transitory query results, almost everything is viewed as a logical table. Associations between these ...

In this podcast, recorded at last week’s Pure//Accelerate 2025 event, we talk to Pure Storage’s chief technology officer (CTO), Rob Lee, to get a drill-down on use of key-value stores in the company’s ...