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Big Data is a buzz word doing the rounds nowadays, and the tool people generally associate with Big Data is Hadoop. While it is true that the sheer volume of data Hadoop can efficiently and cost effectively manage is unparalleled, not all businesses actually need Hadoop.

A previous blog I wrote on JSON functionality in PostgreSQL went wildly popular and it got me thinking about writing a follow-up HOWTO about JSONB. JSONB, like JSON, is a native data type in PostgreSQL and was introduced in version 9.4. The major difference between the types is signified in the name; the extra ‘B’ stands for binary format. Some more detailed comparison is given in the table below:

I previously blogged about NoSQL support in PostgreSQL and then later wrote a tutorial on using JSON data type. Today, I will be talking about another angle of NoSQL in PostgreSQL, handling key-value data using the HSTORE contrib module.

For 2015, once again, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms ranks Tableau pretty much at the top. How powerful would it

In a previous post, I talked about the excitement that surrounds NoSQL support in PostgreSQL. Today, I will dive a little deeper into the technical details of native JSON support that makes NoSQL possible.