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 ...

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In this special guest feature, Adam Wray of Basho Technologies reflects on the implications of the recent acquisition of FoundationDB by Apple and what’s in store for the NoSQL industry in general.

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly ...