There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational 'SQL' databases. For application developers this ...

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around. That's where his team fed portions of Hadoop output for analysts to query more easily.

Many NoSQL programmers like to brag about how their lightweight code and simple mechanism work extremely quickly. They’re usually right when the tasks are as simple as the insides of NoSQL, but ...

NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...

The SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...

Given the rise in popularity of NoSQL functionality, SQL database vendors have taken notice and are implementing NoSQL-like functionality within their database structure. But before we dive deeper ...

SQL-based relational database systems are indeed as moribund as NoSQL advocates charge, he argued. But this is the fault of the database vendors themselves, not SQL.

Just as the debate between Mac or PC rages on, and polarized opinions persist over which industrial network protocol is the best, a new technology debate is breaking out of the clustered ranks of IT ...

So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run counter to those strengths. But in reality, NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it’s being ...