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 ...
Figure A: The revamped Microsoft Azure portal page. Image: Screenshot by Tony Patton Data is a forever growing and seemingly never-ending organizational resource (anyone else tired of hearing about ...
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 ...
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Jumping into the growing NoSQL market, Microsoft has debuted a simple data store through the Azure cloud hosting service. The document database is well suited for organizations or startups that need a ...
Enter the latest of the NoSQL contenders: Microsoft. Yesterday, the folks in Redmond announced new features for Microsoft Azure, two of which hint at Microsoft seeing a rich market for NoSQL ...
Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...