PostgreSQL began adding support for JSON documents in 2013 and has developed it ever since, but that is not enough to create a rival to MongoDB on its own, Farkas argued.

With support for bigger tables, faster indexing, and connections to Hadoop, the new version of the enterprise-grade database aims for both SQL and NoSQL users Credit: Thinkstock ...

A modern NoSQL database with PostgreSQL roots By open sourcing a tool that’s already widely used in Azure, Microsoft is giving developers the ability to run something that’s already proven to ...

News New PostgreSQL guns for NoSQL market By Joab Jackson May 15, 2014 10:00 am PDT ...

Escaping the Limitations of a Fixed Schema For many other NoSQL systems, support for SQL is rendered moot by their schema-free design. Schemas essentially restrict and define the types of records that ...

SQL is orthogonal to data representation and storage. Some SQL systems support JSON and other structured object formats with better performance and more features than NoSQL implementations.

And, almost every relational and non-relational database is implementing robust support for JSON. At a minimum, N1QL illustrates that the core features of SQL still can apply, even for systems that ...