The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original NoSQL systems ...

There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL databases have added support for SQL-style queries.

The broad range of NoSQL tools that include projects like Cassandra, CouchDB, Hadoop, Memcached, and MongoDB bring to bear a number of technical advantages--even if no one tool does everything ...

Yes, SQL. It’s in NoSQL databases now. Nonrelational databases are turning to the most successful and well-known database language to put it to work on nonrelational data (like JSON).

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

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.

A modern NoSQL database with PostgreSQL roots By open sourcing a tool that’s already widely used in Azure, Microsoft is giving developers the ability to run something that’s already proven to ...

NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...