Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal scalability, and higher availability than traditional SQL databases, sometimes at the cost of weaker consistency. NoSQL databases ...

Google Cloud Spanner combines SQL and strong consistency with the horizontal scalability of NoSQL systems. Still, pure SQL and pure NoSQL systems will have their place for many years to come.

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.

While NoSQL databases offer greater scalability and flexibility, they have their own limitations, Stonebraker said. By not using SQL, NoSQL database systems lose the ability to do highly ...

NewSQL systems offer the best of both worlds: the relational data model and ACID transactional consistency of traditional operational databases; the familiarity and interactivity of SQL; and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NoSQL provides ease of getting started, scalability, reliability, flexibility, and agility, leading to a less costly program to react to business needs. It’s probably not enough to justify rewriting ...

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison. There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many ...

Amazon Aurora DSQL provides a distributed SQL database with 99.999% multi-Region availability, virtually unlimited scalability, strong consistency, and zero infrastructure management ...