Craigslist is a great example of a company seamlessly integrating ... but it’s never had a problem running NoSQL right alongside MySQL. It’s simply about the right tool for the job.

The neat thing about Craigslist though is the fact that they didn’t go completely hog-wild over their NoSQL solution. MySQL is still the workhorse on the front-end, and so it should be. User-centric ...

Unfortunately, instead of making the job of data persistence easy, the nature of MySQL created complexity, forcing Craigslist to start exploring NoSQL options that could ... MySQL servers. For example ...

Note that a shared-nothing design is not exclusive to NoSQL databases. Many conventional SQL systems can be set up in a shared-nothing fashion, such as MySQL, although that typically involves ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost, though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch. The new 2019 Database Trends ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. “We’re in constant dialogue with ...

For OpenWorld, Oracle has scheduled a number of sessions and demonstrations (PDF) devoted to something called the Oracle NoSQL Database. The work that the company has done thus far to equip MySQL ...

the so-called NoSQL databases can boost performance and scalability, which has made them attractive to the consumer Web world. Like Facebook and Twitter, Digg is also moving from MySQL , the ...