The image shows the difference between the three of them. NoSQL databases generally process data faster than relational databases.

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

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

A NoSQL database has flexible data requirements, making it a better fit for applications that will evolve over time than an SQL database.

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.

NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it's being done.

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