The advantages of NoSQL don’t come without a cost, though. NoSQL systems favor speed and scalability over the ACID properties behind reliable transactions promised by SQL databases.

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

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 ...

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 ...

NewSQL systems offer the best of both worlds: the relational data model and ACID transactional consistency of traditional operational databases; the familiarity and interactivity of SQL; and the ...

NoSQL is a fairly imprecise term - it defines what the databases are not, rather than what they are, and rejects SQL rather than the more relevent strict consistency of the relational model. As ...

In fact, many NoSQL databases have added support for SQL-style queries. But in a world where enterprises are deluged by unstructured data from mobile, social, cloud, sensors, and other sources ...

NoSQL databases have proliferated in recent years to cater to the growing need for quick storage of and access to very large volumes of data across a multiplicity of servers. This requires scalability ...