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

The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

After building a user-base which includes Comcast, GE, and UPS, Couchbase reached terms with Haveli Investments late last week. In 2021, the company, which has introduced SQL-like features on its ...

The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...

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

NoSQL databases said that if you had a database with no joins, no standard query language (because implementing SQL takes time), and no data integrity then you could scale horizontally and handle ...

What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa ...

NoSQL basics NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original ...

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...