A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...

Is it possible to write a safe accounting (or inventory management, etc) system that would work with an eventually consistent (and distributed) data store, like say, CouchDB? Do you just have to "live ...

The Apache Cassandra NoSQL distributed data store continues to accumulate features that mimic traditional databases, with the newly released version 2 of the open source software offering triggers, ...

The concept of a “data lake,” sometimes called an “enterprise data hub,” is a seductive one. The data lake is the landing zone for all the data in your organization – structured, unstructured and semi ...