Thousands of organizations using the Cosmos DB service on Microsoft Azure need to regenerate their primary read-write keys after researchers found a vulnerability that would have given external ...

A couple of weeks ago, in an article about the science behind the Message Machine project, we mentioned the custom key-value store we built to store non-relational data. Today, we're open sourcing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Database provider DataStax Inc. today introduced new cybersecurity features to help enterprises more effectively protect their business information from hacking attempts. Santa Clara, California-based ...

According to the Microsoft email describing the problem to affected customers, "Microsoft has recently become aware of a vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB that could potentially allow a user to gain ...

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...