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.

Avoiding performance problems -- whether it's during the initial deployment or after the application has been in production for years -- is always a noble quest, which is why more and more software ...

In all tests the best practices for each product were followed, and multiple rounds of tests were run to determine the optimal number of threads and best performance for each product.

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.

The articles on NoSQL databases in Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge column appearing in recent issues of LJ have been enjoyable. Because this is the Enterprise issue, I think it would be helpful to ...