NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases.Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

After building a user-base which includes Comcast, GE, and UPS, Couchbase reached terms with Haveli Investments late last ...

But in a way, SQL was a baby thrown out with the bathwater; it was the transactional model of the RDBMS, not the SQL language which powered the NoSQL revolution. Over the past 10 years we’ve seen a ...

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.

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.

Although NoSQL has generated some noise of late, SQL continues to win in the marketplace and continues to earn investment and adoption throughout the big data problem space.

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 ...

The analytic capabilities of most NoSQL database are “sub-optimal by any measure,” Cubukcu says. “The Achilles Heel of those solutions is the analytics,” he says. “If you want to run these ad hoc ...

Today Simba Technologies Inc.®, the worldwide leader in Big Data connectivity, introduced version two of its industry-leading ODBC driver for the Apache Cassandra high-performance distributed ...