The term “NoSQL” is ambiguous, but for this discussion I use Dr. Rick Cattell’s NoSQL definition to mean “systems that provide simple operations like key/value storage or simple records ...

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.

NoSQL did away with standards. MongoDB does not use SQL as a primary language. When MongoDB’s closest competitor Couchbase was looking for a query language to replace their Java-based mapreduce ...

SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: ... An address table, for example, might have columns for street name and number, city, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.