"If they try, it's up to an application developer to write lots and lots [of code] to enforce consistency." It's increasingly apparent that for many, it's no longer an issue of SQL vs. NoSQL.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

Google, despite its early adoption of NoSQL, has shifted back to SQL for data consistency (see its F1 research). Facebook, Cloudera and Apache use SQL because they understand that it can meet user ...

The best solution for your application may be a traditional SQL database, a NoSQL database, or possibly a mix of both ... Because of the "eventual consistency" model, writes can be very fast when ...

But the hard truth is that SQL and NoSQL both provide features the other doesn’t, with SQL most valuable where consistency of data is required. A new survey of database use called “Database ...

ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability (see the What Is ... and Phillips is the future. One recent SQL-to-NoSQL move involved Digg.com moving from MySQL to Cassandra. As part of the move, ...

the relational data model and ACID transactional consistency of traditional operational databases; the familiarity and interactivity of SQL; and the scalability and speed of NoSQL. Some offer stronger ...

The NoSQL database gets its name from what ... about database performance and less about achieving perfect consistency. Traditional SQL databases make better promises about preventing mistakes ...

The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest position since the rankings ...