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Yes, SQL. It’s in NoSQL databases now. Nonrelational databases are turning to the most successful and well-known database language to put it to work on nonrelational data (like JSON).
AWS is also bringing strong consistency and global distribution to its DynamoDB NoSQL database. DynamoDB global tables with strong consistency allows data written to a DynamoDB table to be ...
Amazon Aurora DSQL provides a distributed SQL database with 99.999% multi-Region availability, virtually unlimited scalability, strong consistency, and zero infrastructure management “Databases ...
SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.
“The root of the problem is that data is typically spread across a combination of relational databases, non-relational data stores, and data lakes,” the AWS authors write. “Some data may be highly ...
The idea of running transactions and analytics on the same database is not new but it's been held back by technology. But things in the hybrid world have been changing.
The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases.
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.
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, 4: ...