SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

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.

Developer survey shows SQL databases are going strong, and NoSQL is the accompaniment, not the replacement Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

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 ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run counter to those strengths. But in reality, NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it’s being ...

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

SQL-based relational database systems are indeed as moribund as NoSQL advocates charge, he argued. But this is the fault of the database vendors themselves, not SQL.

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational 'SQL' databases. For application developers this ...

SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that are non-relational and do not use SQL as their ...