CrateDB gets two major advantages from the NoSQL side. One is support for unstructured data via JSON documents and BLOB storage, with JSON data queryable through SQL as well.

These days, SQL is being pushed out of the limelight by concepts like NoSQL, which is not confined by the rows and tables paradigm of the RDBMS.

Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, today told the blog MyNoSQL that the social networking company plans to move from MySQL to the Cassandra database for what he called its resilience, scalability ...