Unlike SQL databases, many NoSQL databases can be scaled horizontally across hundreds or thousands of servers. The advantages of NoSQL don’t come without a cost, though.

More and more businesses are adopting NoSQL databases to support the broad set of use cases for the next-generation of personalized, context-sensitive, and location-aware applications.

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 ...

NoSQL is a broad category of disparate database technologies, most of which have come to market in the past decade. NewSQL is a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matt Aslett to describe a new group of ...

SQL is a relatively innocent bystander, but, because SQL is a universal feature of the RDBMS, the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, ...

But the trend is only now reaching the NoSQL world, where Couchbase Inc. is breaking new ground with the debut of a relational access layer for its popular document store.

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.

Couchbase 4.0 elegantly integrates SQL and JSON, maintaining schema-independence while adding support for joins and a range of BI tools.

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 ...

SQL enables increased interaction with data and allows a broad set of questions to be asked against a single database design. That’s key since data that’s not interactive is essentially ...