NoSQL attacked both relational databases and SQL in the same vein. The main problem this time was that the Internet had destroyed the underlying premise of the 40-year-old relational database ...

SQL-aware development tools, reporting tools, monitoring tools, and connectors are available for just about every combination of operating system, platform, and database under the sun, and nearly ...

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

Boston's Akiban Technologies is seeking to emerge as a player in the world of database technology in 2013, with software that aims — for the first time — to allow businesses to handle complex ...

For technical clarification, databases come in two flavors: relational and non-relational. Relational (SQL) databases store data in tables with strictly-defined relationships between tables.

What made SQL more successful was the advent of the relational database. First designed by IBM computer scientist E. F. Codd in 1970, relational databases organize data into rows and columns so it ...

There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL databases have added support for SQL-style queries.

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.

The story of how we went from the relational model introduced by Edgar F. Codd to the SQL databases and language we all know today may be a bit different depending on who you ask.