Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...

Cloudant's strategic relationship with Microsoft continues Cloudant's own work to bring its database-as-a-service product to public cloud providers and cloud application platforms. Cloudant's NoSQL ...

SEATTLE—In its continued efforts to make Azure a platform that appeals to the widest range of developers possible, Microsoft announced a range of new features at Build, its annual developer conference ...

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

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Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

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 ...