Microsoft has just shipped out its first-ever non-relational database on Windows Azure, which also happens to be its first database product of any kind since releasing its legendary SQL Server.

I would say SQL Server 2016 is a good turn in terms of high availability, increased throughput and large workloads. Microsoft has brought in bug functionality changes and it is claiming this as ...

If you spend any time at all reading IT trade journals and websites, you've no doubt heard about the NoSQL movement. In a nutshell, NoSQL databases (also called post-relational databases) are a ...

Netflix is hiring, but SQL Server gurus need not apply. The company that transformed from a clunky DVD-by-mail delivery system to cutting-edge video streaming from the cloud has some SQL Server ...

There's much talk already about Microsoft's coming "Denali" release of SQL Server, for example. And, although I never wish harm to anyone, I'm looking forward to a bit more Darwinian action in the ...

Azure SQL Database has a new feature in preview called "Managed Instances" that offers greater compatibility between on-premises SQL Server and the cloud variant, again to make workload migration ...

Microsoft may not have an on-premise NoSQL product, but that is not the case with Oracle. Building on its purchase of Sleepycat Software in 2006, it has built its Oracle NoSQL database on top of ...

Couchbase Server 4.0 with N1QL provides other advantages too, such as support for SQL-based data visualization tools like Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Qlik and more.