SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.

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.

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.

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

HarperDB flies in the face of conventional wisdom in a number of ways. But does the world need another database?

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

In contrast, NewSQL can provide the quality of assurance associated with SQL systems, while offering the scalability of NoSQL systems, Stonebraker argued.

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

As the co-creator of Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin knows a thing or two about pulling data out of relational databases. So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database ...

SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that are non-relational and do not use SQL as their ...