NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference? NoSQL is a broad category of disparate database technologies, most of which have come to market in the past decade. NewSQL is a term coined by 451 Group ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be "throwing the baby out with the bath water," warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

The high cost of scaling up traditional relational databases, such as Oracle, IBM DB2, and MySQL, has driven many businesses to seek affordable scale-out solutions. This white paper discusses the pros ...

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.