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.

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.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 20, 2025--Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database experts, today announced its support of the new document database-compatible Postgres extension named DocumentDB. This open ...

Document store databases let you manage records that are long and have varied structure. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

As soon as NoSQL databases started to become mainstream, SQL database vendors began to feel some effects. The easiest thing for traditional database vendors has been to add support for storage of JSON ...

The N1QL: SQL for JSON (Nickel) project makes it possible to apply SQL queries to Couchbase in much the same way SQL is used to query every other database in the enterprise. Mayuram says Couchbase is ...

However, the reality is that document databases and SQL databases are actually both converging. Just as JSON-oriented document databases like MongoDB add support for SQL, SQL databases add ...

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.

MongoDB is a document-based database, ... SQL database, MongoDB stores data in JSON files, also known as document-based storage. Document-based formats provide some appealing characteristics, ...