SQL and NoSQL databases offer different tradeoffs. While they may compete in the context of a specific project—as in, which to choose for this application or that application—they are ...

MongoDB is at No. 4 of all databases, including both SQL and NoSQL, and it's the most popular NoSQL database. Wanderu started using it 3.5 years ago, or about six months before Matt Warren, ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014 at ...

Document database company Couchbase is set to be bought by a private equity biz in all-cash transaction valued at ...

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

Most relational databases had their own native database access methods, which offered superior performance compared to SQL, but over time the performance of SQL has improved and it has become ...

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 ...

SQL is a relatively innocent bystander, but, because SQL is a universal feature of the RDBMS, the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, ...

Thus, SQL drove the adoption of relational databases to near ubiquity. However, we’ve started to hit the limitations of what relational systems can do. Data no longer follows a uniform structure.

Open source database pioneer Rasmus Johansson shares his views on the current debate around SQL and NoSQL database. Johansson has been VP of Engineering for SkySQL since 2013 and the merger of ...