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.

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.

It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses skyrocket, it’s probably time to consider a move. Many IT organizations have ...

Rockset said this week its real-time SQL capability could be combined with Tableau dashboards without any additional code, allowing users to access NoSQL data from Apache Kafka and DynamoDB. The ...

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the leading NoSQL systems: Cassandra, Couchbase Server, and MongoDB. Unlike other NoSQL comparisons that focus only on one or two dimensions, this research ...