The NoSQL databases are important because they scale much further than relational databases in terms of the raw size of datasets, but to do so they store information in a format that is often ... it ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL ... queries on its content, searching for the information they need. That data can be in any format ...

NoSQL databases said that if you had a database with no joins, no standard query language (because implementing SQL takes time), and no data integrity then you could scale horizontally and handle ...

By contrast, NoSQL programming innovation MapReduce is a procedural query technique ... Now, as JSON becomes a popular data interchange format, SQL vendors are adding JSON-type support as well.

the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, at least initially, these new databases shunned SQL as a query language, most notably because ...

described themselves as “NoSQL” databases. A bewildering array of SQL-on-Hadoop technologies have emerged, but operational non-relational systems—key-value stores and document databases—have been ...

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 ...

What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa ...

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores.

Because most Web Services now return data in the JSON format, this support can simplify those Action methods in your controllers that are the targets of AJAX calls from clients. Effectively, those ...