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 ...

SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.

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.

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 ...

SQL has the impressive track record, the large installed base, but NoSQL is making impressive gains and has many proponents. We put the question to experts in both camps.

The NoSQL taxonomy supports key-value stores, document store, BigTable, and graph databases. MongoDB, for example, uses a document model, which can be thought of as a row in a RDBMS.

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014, 4: ...

While the audience was comprised of NoSQL users and developers, many seemed to think Stonebraker’s SQL-friendlier approach had some merit, even if they disagreed on individual points.

NoSQL attacked both relational databases and SQL in the same vein. The main problem this time was that the Internet had destroyed the underlying premise of the 40-year-old relational database ...

Even the biggest names in the NoSQL space — MongoDB and Hadoop — were in use with only 10 and 8 percent, respectively, of the respondents. DBaaS also showed only a modest degree of uptake.