{"id":5014,"date":"2014-12-08T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2014-11-02T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:36:42","slug":"nosql-databases-niche-tools-slowly-taking-their-place-in-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/nosql-databases-niche-tools-slowly-taking-their-place-in-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"NoSQL Databases: Niche Tools Slowly Taking Their Place in the Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

NoSQL databases store and retrieve data using techniques other keeping data in structured tabular format like that used in traditional relational databases. \u00a0Compared to relational databases, NoSQL databases are often simpler in design, can scale more flexibly, and enable very fine-grain access to data.<\/p>\n

While NoSQL databases dominate database technology news, actually NoSQL databases have a very low presence across enterprises. \u00a0A 2014 InformationWeek survey<\/a>\u00a0 to determine which database technologies are used by enterprises found that only 13 percent of organizations surveyed have installed Hadoop, 5 percent use MongoDB and 3 percent have SAP HANA licenses. \u00a0Compare that to 75 percent of organizations using Microsoft SQL Server and 47 percent using Oracle RDBMS. \u00a0Joe Masters Emison<\/a>, CTO of BuildFax, comments that<\/a> even FileMaker currently \u00a0still has a higher adoption percentage than highly-hyped NoSQL contenders Cassandra, Riak, and MariaDB.<\/p>\n

Forrester Research estimates that NoSQL<\/a> adoption at enterprises actually to be significantly higher, closer to being used by 20 percent of enterprises. \u00a0Forrester also expects<\/a> the use of NoSQL to double by 2017.<\/p>\n

Forrester identifies four use cases where NoSQL shine:<\/p>\n