The SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...

SQL and NoSQL databases offer different tradeoffs. While they may compete in the context of a specific project—as in, which to choose for this application or that application—they are ...

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 ...

Start coding a new database in your garage with a buddy of yours. Use JavaScript. Name it after your dog. Patent your own data model. Do not go open source. Take over the world. That is HarperDB's ...

Comparing that strategy to a declarative SQL query, how to project, how to sort, and all processing specified is left to the database. What we’re left with is an easier-to-read and write ...

Given the rise in popularity of NoSQL functionality, SQL database vendors have taken notice and are implementing NoSQL-like functionality within their database structure. But before we dive deeper ...

SQL, the standard-issue and widely understood language for database work, isn’t supported by most document databases, so those with existing database expertise must start from scratch.

“With N1QL, we are SQL 92 compliant, which means if you write a query, you would not know if the query is executing on a relational database or on a NoSQL database,” explains Ravi Mayuram, vice ...

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 ...

The document database is one of the fastest growing types of NoSQL databases today. It’s a derivation of the key-value store. But instead of storing data in rows and columns, the key value pairs are ...