To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

NoSQL promises kept and promises broken NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design.

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores ...

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

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 are non-relational and do not use SQL as their ...

NoSQL represents the modern themes in database management, for example the simplicity of design, storing of massive amounts of data and scaling out horizontally in an easier way.

And, finally, the SQL language can be overused and complex, but this is largely the choice of the developer or adopted standards within an application group. So if most of the perceived weaknesses for ...

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

NoSQL databases have proven to be a better choice in that regard, using object-focused technologies such as JSON, for example.

SQL Server was reported in use by 57 percent of respondents, followed by MySQL (40 percent), Oracle (38 percent), DB2 (14 percent) and PostgresSQL (13 percent). "The results suggest that relational ...