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Azure goes database crazy with one new NoSQL and two new SQL services There's also a nifty new browser-based admin shell. Ars Staff – May 10, 2017 11:00 am | 33 ...
New Azure DocumentDB service offers SQL-like transactions with NoSQL-like unstructured data, but SQL Server-like transactions Enter the latest of the NoSQL contenders: Microsoft.
A metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory boosts scalability, flexibility, and security in integrating diverse ...
Microsoft NoSQL database and full-text search service previews available on Azure Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Aug. 21, 2014 at 10:34 a.m. PT ...
There are lots of ways to create SQL databases, but especially in Azure, there's a much better way that doesn't include knowing a bunch of PowerShell commands and parameters.
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 ...
Azure SQL Database typically receives new features ahead of SQL Server, which allows Microsoft to see how these features operate in the wild and to understand how widely they are being used.
And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage.
According to Shukla, it has the scalability of NoSQL, the richness of SQL, the low latencies that you get from running on SSD-based clusters in 17 Azure regions around the world (soon to be 21 ...
Open source database pioneer Rasmus Johansson shares his views on the current debate around SQL and NoSQL database. Johansson has been VP of Engineering for SkySQL since 2013 and the merger of ...