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.

NoSQL database and cloud computing goes hand in hand when compared with SQL databases. The main advantage of NoSQL databases is agility.

In fact, many NoSQL databases have added support for SQL-style queries. But in a world where enterprises are deluged by unstructured data from mobile, social, cloud, sensors, and other sources ...

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While SQL is readily available on most platforms these days, there are other alternatives—including NoSQL and NewSQL—that have arisen to address “big data,” as well as less-structured content.

These waned in popularity and the next real mass-market attempt was “NoSQL” in the 2010s. The attack on SQL. ... databases, and cloud computing.

"MongoDB was the most popular NoSQL DB with slightly more than 10 percent, behind all relational database choices." So much for SQL becoming obsolete in the new era of Big Data, mobile and cloud ...

As more computing functions move to the cloud, a relatively new database format — NoSQL — is poised to take the place of the SQL database on which so many manufacturers rely. Automation experts weigh ...