SQL: RELATIONAL DATABASES First, let’s take a look at one of the main features that separates these two systems: the way they structure data. A relational database —or, an SQL database, named ...

NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original NoSQL systems ...

So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run counter to those strengths. But in reality, NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it’s being ...

The SQL language served as a universal language for data­base manipulation from the mid-1980s until NoSQL data­bases started gaining strength about 12 years ago. However, after a short period in the ...

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational 'SQL' databases. For application developers this ...

CrateDB’s one of a flood of recent database products that all address specific issues that have sprung up: scalability, resiliency, mixing modalities (NoSQL vs. SQL, document vs. graph), high ...

NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...

Yugabyte aims to give enterprise buyers the best of both worlds, when it comes to choosing their next generation of databases. In the on-premise world, SQL relational databases ruled the roost, but ...