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.

Microsoft has just shipped out its first-ever non-relational database on Windows Azure, which also happens to be its first database product of any kind since releasing its legendary SQL Server.

You just have to look at how even the largest databases are changing, with Oracle adopting NoSQL patterns in its in-memory tools, as Microsoft's SQL Server does the same with its new column stores.

When it comes to which database technologies are currently in use at the participating companies, the results featured established commercial products like Microsoft SQL Server (57 percent) and ...

Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...

The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing Machinery ...

Microsoft released multiple updates to its database offerings at its Build 2024 conference. One of the major updates to its database offerings includes the addition of vector search to Azure ...

Jumping into the growing NoSQL market, Microsoft has debuted a simple data store through the Azure cloud hosting service. The document database is well suited for organizations or startups that ...

In some cases, NoSQL databases will do the trick, Microsoft researchers assert The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two ...