Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

Advances in Web technology and the proliferation of mobile devices and sensors connected
to the Internet have resulted in immense processing and storage requirements. Cloud …

Non-relational databases have proved to be a viable alternative to the traditional relational
database management systems, especially with the ever-increasing volume of data. Also …

Today, data is generated and consumed at unprecedented scale. This has lead to novel
approaches for scalable data management subsumed under the term “NoSQL” database …

Modeling is one of the most important steps in developing a database. In traditional
databases, the Entity Relationship (ER) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) models are …

It is remarkable how stable some concepts are in the field of databases. Information
technology is generally known to be subject to rapid development, bringing forth new …

Abstract Traditional Relational Database Management Systems are continuously being
replaced by NoSQL data stores as a result of the growing demand for big data applications …

Relational database management systems (RDMBSs) today are the predominant
technology for storing structured data in web and business applications. Since Codds paper …

The growing popularity of massively accessed Web applications that store and analyze
large amounts of data, being Facebook, Twitter and Google Search some prominent …

In this paper, I describe some of the recent developments in the database management
area, in particular the NoSQL phenomenon and the hoopla associated with it. The goal of …