SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.

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 is making it much easier for businesses to develop and run applications for these web, mobile and IoT applications," Wiederhold said. N1QL has been in development for two years, the CEO added.

While the term had the advantage of striking people’s attention, it gives a false impression that the developer does not need to think about the structure of data to be stored. In fact, data modeling ...

Nevertheless, to avoid the misconception that NoSQL requires the absence of SQL, some in the non-relational community started describing NoSQL as “Not Only SQL” rather than “NO SQL.” Yet, as ...

Unlike SQL databases, many NoSQL databases can be scaled horizontally across hundreds or thousands of servers. The advantages of NoSQL don’t come without a cost, though.

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 ...

The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...

Thus, SQL drove the adoption of relational databases to near ubiquity. However, we’ve started to hit the limitations of what relational systems can do. Data no longer follows a uniform structure.