Here's a look at 10 real-world NoSQL use cases, demonstrating how companies from a variety of industries are employing this relatively new database.

The NoSQL taxonomy supports key-value stores, document store, BigTable, and graph databases. MongoDB, for example, uses a document model, which can be thought of as a row in a RDBMS.

MongoDB is an example of a popular document DBMS. The next type of NoSQL offering is the key-value database. Key-value technology can be useful when most of the data access is done using a unique key.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

MongoDB and CouchDB are examples of document databases. Graph Databases Show the Connections Between Data A graph database uses nodes, relationships between nodes and key-value properties instead of ...

Choosing between schemaless NoSQL databases and strong-schema relational designs isn't an either-or decision, as this case study points out. When dealing with their big data problem, Craigslist ...

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

As examples of MySQL at scale proliferated, Pivotal vice president James Bayer suggested to me, it bred confidence that MySQL was a strong go-to option for demanding workloads.