SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

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.

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 ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

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 ...

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run counter to those strengths. But in reality, NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it’s being ...

Although NoSQL has generated some noise of late, SQL continues to win in the marketplace and continues to earn investment and adoption throughout the big data problem space.

SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that are non-relational and do not use SQL as their ...