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.

The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

There are many document and column-oriented NoSQL databases, e.g. MongoDB, HBase and Couchbase. Read more about how VoltDB stacks up vs. other database solutions. Alternate data models in NoSQL ...

While SQL is readily available on most platforms these days, there are other alternatives—including NoSQL and NewSQL—that have arisen to address “big data,” as well as less-structured content.

Still Fighting About SQL vs. NoSQL? I was quite surprised to see a recent Slashdot post titled "SQL vs. NoSQL: Which is Better?" My first thought was: "Really? Hasn't this already been settled?" The ...

For example, a document-oriented NoSQL database takes the data you want to store and aggregates it into documents using the JSON format. Each JSON document can be thought of as an object to be ...

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

CrateDB’s one of a flood of recent database products that all address specific issues that have sprung up: scalability, resiliency, mixing modalities (NoSQL vs. SQL, document vs. graph), high ...