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

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

FoundationDB plans to offer a hybrid data store that can host both NoSQL and SQL structured data Database software vendor FoundationDB has acquired Akiban, another purveyor of database software ...

NoSQL promises kept and promises broken NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design.

NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it's being done.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

As the SQL and NoSQL worlds continue to converge in the pursuit of comprehensive Big Data analytics solutions, a Silicon Valley start-up wants to provide a bridge between the two with RESTful APIs.

A new NoSQL offering for the Google cloud, based on Google's internal Bigtable database.

A new beta tool from Quest Software lets users mix and match traditional SQL data and non-relational NoSQL data in the cloud. Toad for Cloud Databases, released in beta, aims “to put NoSQL databases ...