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.

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.

The idea of running transactions and analytics on the same database is not new but it's been held back by technology. But things in the hybrid world have been changing.

SQL-based relational database systems are indeed as moribund as NoSQL advocates charge, he argued. But this is the fault of the database vendors themselves, not SQL.

Some NoSQL products can use SQL-like syntax to work with data, but only to a limited extent. For example, Apache Cassandra, a wide column store, has its own SQL-like language, the Cassandra Query ...

In previous columns, we've noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

Netflix is hiring, but SQL Server gurus need not apply. The company that transformed from a clunky DVD-by-mail delivery system to cutting-edge video streaming from the cloud has some SQL Server ...

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 ...