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 ...

According to Kapuya, the real difference between NoSQL and SQL lies in the different data access methods provided by NoSQL and SQL, which result in different scalability and performance results.

Here, I’m going to draw out the important benefits and differentiation of SQL systems vs. simple key/value and JSON object stores that do not innovate beyond storage format and scalability.

Like NoSQL, NewSQL is used to describe a loosely-affiliated group of companies (ScaleBase has done a good job of identifying, some of the several NewSQL sub-types) but what they have in common is the ...

NoSQL provides ease of getting started, scalability, reliability, flexibility, and agility, leading to a less costly program to react to business needs. It’s probably not enough to justify rewriting ...

Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability and flexibility, judging from a number of ...

While NoSQL databases offer greater scalability and flexibility, they have their own limitations, Stonebraker said. By not using SQL, NoSQL database systems lose the ability to do highly ...

Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability and flexibility, judging from a number of ...

Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal scalability, and higher availability than traditional SQL databases, sometimes at the cost of weaker consistency.

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.