NewSQL is a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matt Aslett to describe a new group of databases that share much of the functionality of traditional SQL relational databases, while offering some of the ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.

A database pioneer argues the best of SQL and NoSQL could be combined in database systems Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be ...

The articles on NoSQL databases in Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge column appearing in recent issues of LJ have been enjoyable. Because this is the Enterprise issue, I think it would be helpful to ...

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores.

In contrast, NewSQL can provide the quality of assurance associated with SQL systems, while offering the scalability of NoSQL systems, Stonebraker argued.

SQL-based relational database systems are indeed as moribund as NoSQL advocates charge, he argued. But this is the fault of the database vendors themselves, not SQL.