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.

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.

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014 at ...

N1QL (pronounced “nickel”) is a new query language that extends SQL to work on JSON documents. Put in more technical terms, JSON represents a non first normal form data model (N1NF), and N1QL ...

However, the success of relational databases could be boiled down to two practical considerations: momentum and the power of the SQL query language. So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run ...

“With N1QL, we are SQL 92 compliant, which means if you write a query, you would not know if the query is executing on a relational database or on a NoSQL database,” explains Ravi Mayuram, vice ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a proven winner that has dominated for several decades and is currently being aggressively invested in by big data companies and organizations such as Google ...

Couchbase NoSQL Database gets the SQL Religion Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor June 4, 2015 at 2:51 p.m. PT What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language?

Couchbase’s SQL query language, called N1QL, is now ready for business in the beta of Couchbase Server 4.0, the company announced today. While Couchbase isn’t giving up on NoSQL concepts or ...

NoSQL describes what these databases remove rather than what they add and implies that the SQL language is a problem—and the only problem—to be solved. In reality, the non-relational movement was ...