Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...

Use a tabular representation (i.e. DSE database) as your primary model for web-level scalability and availability, layering key-value and document semantics on top of this as needed.

A primary key is a field used to uniquely identify every record in the database. Sometime primary keys are obvious, for example a car license plate could be used to uniquely identify cars. Often ...