To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore ...

However, NoSQL databases are a bit like Hadoop — they had early promise but it fizzled. After 10 years of the NoSQL “revolution,” SQL databases remain the bulk of the database market.

The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

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 ...

The final break with tradition in NoSQL databases is the thing that gave them their name. They don't use SQL. The reasons for dropping SQL usually revolve around it not fitting in with modern ...

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

Non-structured databases predate SQL. MUMPS dates to 1966, and is perhaps the canonical NoSQL database. It is a key-value store in almost exactly the same fashion as Mongo or Couch.