JSON is great for moving data around but not so hot when you need to convert it into data stored in a relational database -- it's a problem complex enough that you might consider using a ...

Conventional SQL and NoSQL have also interpenetrated via products that place a conventional SQL querying engine in front of a NoSQL system like Hadoop. That’s the pitch for Splice Machine, which ...

A relational database —or, an SQL database, named for the language it’s written in, Structured Query Language (SQL)—is the more rigid, structured way of storing data, like a phone book.

Of all the NoSQL databases, those that descend from the Google BigTable model come closest to defining some form of schema. BigTable formed the basis for many traditional Google applications and ...

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a format that is very popular with developers and is the basis for document databases like MongoDB. Kincaid said that PostgreSQL 17 now supports JSON tables ...