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.

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 ...

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

Many conventional SQL systems can be set up in a shared-nothing fashion, such as MySQL, although that typically involves sacrificing consistency across the cluster for performance. NoSQL limitations ...

This is not a new dichotomy, incidentally. Most relational databases had their own native database access methods, which offered superior performance compared to SQL, but over time the performance of ...

After building a user-base which includes Comcast, GE, and UPS, Couchbase reached terms with Haveli Investments late last ...

Oracle 12c, PostgreSQL 9.2, VoltDB and others support JSON – often with performance benchmarks superior to “native” JSON NoSQL stores. SQL will continue to win market share and will continue ...

Dwight Merriman, a founder of online advertising company DoubleClick and one of the creators of MongoDB, agreed with Stonebraker that SQL itself doesn’t prevent scalability and slow performance.

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 ...

Just as the debate between Mac or PC rages on, and polarized opinions persist over which industrial network protocol is the best, a new technology debate is breaking out of the clustered ranks of IT ...