Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

NoSQL Option: Triplestore DatabasesRelational databases (RDBMSs) have been the dominant data management tool for 30 years. They proved to be a good solution for the capture and management of ...

Generally, NoSQL databases sacrifice ACID compliancy for flexibility and processing speed, but for many e-commerce and financial applications, an ACID-compliant database remains the preferred option.

Like so many technology debates before it, the SQL/NoSQL debate may soon enter the realm of great technology disagreements as Mac versus PC, fieldbus versus Ethernet, and PC versus PLC-based control.

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

For understanding the broad categories of NoSQL data stores, I found this paper by Rick Cattell helpful, in which the former Sun Microsystems database architect breaks down the options into key ...

MongoDB is currently the fifth-most-widely used database system in the world after Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, according to a ranking system maintained on DB-Engines.com.

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.