And yes, SQL engines will be stuck onto “NoSQL” engines and will work the same problems from the other side. I went to a bigdata confab a while ago and just laughed at all the stories, “Doh! We ran ...

NoSQL did away with standards. MongoDB does not use SQL as a primary language. When MongoDB’s closest competitor Couchbase was looking for a query language to replace their Java-based mapreduce ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014 at ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a proven winner that has dominated for several decades and is currently being aggressively invested in by big data companies and organizations such as Google ...

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, ...

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores.

Couchbase NoSQL Database gets the SQL Religion Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor June 4, 2015 at 2:51 p.m. PT What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language?

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.

NoSQL describes what these databases remove rather than what they add and implies that the SQL language is a problem—and the only problem—to be solved. In reality, the non-relational movement was ...

However, the success of relational databases could be boiled down to two practical considerations: momentum and the power of the SQL query language. So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run ...