N1QL extends SQL from traditionally operating on tables and rows (tuples) to operate on JSON (nested documents). It’s built on a nested recursive algebra for a nested recursive data model.

Couchbase Inc., long the champion of its "world's highest-performing NoSQL distributed database platform," has apparently decided that this SQL stuff isn't so bad after all, having announced a new ...

Of all the NoSQL databases, those that descend from the Google BigTable model come closest to defining some form of schema. BigTable formed the basis for many traditional Google applications and ...

Many of PostgreSQL’s recent changes, from scaling via sharding to adding JSON document-processing functions, have been inspired by NoSQL. The new PostgreSQL 9.5 continues in that vein, but doesn ...

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 ...

For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn’t ...