Given the rise in popularity of NoSQL functionality, SQL database vendors have taken notice and are implementing NoSQL-like functionality within their database structure. But before we dive deeper ...

Thus, SQL drove the adoption of relational databases to near ubiquity. However, we’ve started to hit the limitations of what relational systems can do. Data no longer follows a uniform structure.

Yes, SQL. It’s in NoSQL databases now. Nonrelational databases are turning to the most successful and well-known database language to put it to work on nonrelational data (like JSON).

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 and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. At VoltDB, we’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if ...

The most popular database products today, as reported by DB Engines rankings, are the relational databases Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Six of the top ten databases today are relational ...

RDBMS: Relational Database Management System. SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that ...

With relational databases supposedly put on deathwatch by NoSQL, MySQL should have been edging gracefully to the exit by now (or not so gracefully, like IBM’s DB2).

Oracle’s view of the SQL versus NoSQL landscape is one in which there is plenty of opportunity for both. Despite the popularity of NoSQL for unstructured data, SQL is not disappearing anytime soon.

In third place was Cassandra, the most popular wide column store database, which came in eighth overall. In terms of overall scoring -- not the increase in popularity -- relational databases recovered ...