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 ...

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

He writes: So I use both. For some projects, I use Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server (yes, I've used all three on different projects) for clients who have large amounts of data that fit well into a tabular ...

MySQL vs SQL Server. This article will tell you the difference between MySQL and SQL Server in brief. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL ...

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users ...

Oracle’s Tomas Ulin said: “MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate received great feedback from the community and helped us to efficiently mature the technology to announce general availability.

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.

CrateDB gets two major advantages from the NoSQL side. One is support for unstructured data via JSON documents and BLOB storage, with JSON data queryable through SQL as well.

Like Facebook and Twitter, Digg is also moving from MySQL , the initial Web 2.0 darling, to Cassandra. Cisco Systems Inc., hosting provider Rackspace and other firms also use Cassandra.

While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...