The NoSQL taxonomy supports key-value stores, document store, BigTable, and graph databases. MongoDB, for example, uses a document model, which can be thought of as a row in a RDBMS.

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 ...

Yes, SQL. It’s in NoSQL databases now. Nonrelational databases are turning to the most successful and well-known database language to put it to work on nonrelational data (like JSON).

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

Unlike SQL databases, many NoSQL databases can be scaled horizontally across hundreds or thousands of servers. The advantages of NoSQL don’t come without a cost, though.

Like so many technology debates before it, the SQL/NoSQL debate may soon enter the realm of great technology disagreements as Mac versus PC, fieldbus versus Ethernet, and PC versus PLC-based control.

As the name suggests, NoSQL databases usually do not use the SQL query language for data access. They use alternative languages which are suited to their data models.

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, 4: ...

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.

10gen is changing its name to MongoDB, the NoSQL technology that it developed and supports. The company said in an announcement of the news that the name unifies the open-source database project ...