In 2021, the company, which has introduced SQL-like features on its multi-modal NoSQL database, raised $200 million in its IPO, valuing it at around $1.2 billion.

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: ...

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 ...

Escaping the Limitations of a Fixed Schema For many other NoSQL systems, support for SQL is rendered moot by their schema-free design. Schemas essentially restrict and define the types of records that ...

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.

N1QL extends SQL from traditionally operating on tables and rows (tuples) to operate on JSON (nested documents). It’s built on a nested recursive algebra for a nested recursive data model.

Here's a look at 10 real-world NoSQL use cases, demonstrating how companies from a variety of industries are employing this relatively new database.

Anyway, the 451 Group noted that "like NoSQL, NewSQL is not to be taken too literally: the new thing about the NewSQL vendors is the vendor, not the SQL." So, does that help clear things up?