The place to be Donald Chamberlin (pictured), the visionary behind SQL, is now championing NoSQL. After celebrating SQL's half-century, he reckons that NoSQL is the way to go for stuff that ...

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 ...

It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses skyrocket, it’s probably time to consider a move. Many IT organizations have ...

The SQL language served as a universal language for data­base manipulation from the mid-1980s until NoSQL data­bases started gaining strength about 12 years ago. However, after a short period in the ...

In previous columns, we've noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

Yugabyte aims to give enterprise buyers the best of both worlds, when it comes to choosing their next generation of databases. In the on-premise world, SQL relational databases ruled the roost, but ...

However, NoSQL databases are a bit like Hadoop — they had early promise but it fizzled. After 10 years of the NoSQL “revolution,” SQL databases remain the bulk of the database market.

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: ...