[Note: Amir Halfon is a frequent blogger at FinExtra, a site devoted to the financial technology community. Following is an excerpt from his blog post of January 4.]

In an earlier post, I wrote about the differences between NoSQL, what it is, what it isn’t, and some of the misconceptions surrounding it. Now I will write about what financial institutions can gain from NoSQL. First up: the Operational Trade Store.

Once a trade is made it needs to be processed by the back office, and reported

MarkLogic hit the Gems Lounge in Boston.

The tour rolled into Boston this week and despite the skies opening, we managed a robust and avid audience. My colleague at MarkLogic, Amir Halfon CTO of Financial Services was my cohort and we spent a good portion of time demystifying how a NoSQL (not-only) database works. Not surprisingly, with seemingly a zillion NoSQL options out there people are completely confused. Amir related how there are three flavors: Document, Graph and Key-Value