N1QL extends SQL from traditionally operating on tables and rows (tuples) to operate on JSON (nested documents). It’s built on a nested recursive algebra for a nested recursive data model.

“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 on a NoSQL database,” explains Ravi Mayuram, vice ...

With a document database, data is not stored in tables with distinct column types. Instead, it’s stored in freeform “documents” with any number of fields and any number of nested structures.

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.

N1QL, designed specifically for JSON-based document data, does just what you would think: it allows users and, perhaps more important, developers, to query Couchbase "buckets" (tables) using SQL ...

Couchbase’s SQL query language, called N1QL, is now ready for business in the beta of Couchbase Server 4.0, the company announced today. While Couchbase isn’t giving up on NoSQL concepts or ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a 'NoSQL' database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

NoSQL is a broad category of disparate database technologies, most of which have come to market in the past decade. NewSQL is a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matt Aslett to describe a new group of ...

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, ...

The SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...