There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course ... sharding techniques (see the related article on Database sharding). The structure of a SQL database, while rigorous, ...

"If they try, it's up to an application developer to write lots and lots [of code] to enforce consistency." It's increasingly apparent that for many, it's no longer an issue of SQL vs. NoSQL.

Talking about SQL database ... If there doesn’t exist a schema or a table in NoSQL, then how do you visualize the database structure? Well, here is the answer No schema required: Data can ...

The NoSQL buzzword ... more structure and protection like this. NoSQL hard truth No. 3: Databases can be smart Many NoSQL programmers like to brag about how their lightweight code and simple ...

plus CQL and SQL in the future. Cloud Bigtable is a public, highly scalable (up to petabytes), column-oriented NoSQL database as a service that uses the same code as Google’s internal version ...

You just have to look at how even the largest databases are changing, with Oracle adopting NoSQL patterns in its in-memory tools, as Microsoft's SQL Server does the same with its new column stores.

(The code is in beta now, and you can download it here.) “With N1QL, we are SQL 92 compliant, which means if you write a query, you would not know if the query is executing on a relational database or ...

Instead, SQL (Structured Query Language ... though writing the code for such operations “is a fate worse than death,” he said. Lastly, each NoSQL database comes with its own query language ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

If the data has a simple tabular structure ... NoSQL databases have proven to be a better choice in that regard, using object-focused technologies such as JSON, for example. Even if you are a SQL ...