SQL, the standard-issue and widely understood language for database work, isn’t supported by most document databases, so those with existing database expertise must start from scratch.

SQL, the standard-issue and widely understood language for database work, isn’t supported by most document databases, so those with existing database expertise must start from scratch.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 20, 2025--Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database experts, today announced its support of the new document database-compatible Postgres extension named DocumentDB.

The N1QL: SQL for JSON (Nickel) project makes it possible to apply SQL queries to Couchbase in much the same way SQL is used to query every other database in the enterprise. Mayuram says Couchbase is ...

Just as JSON-oriented document databases like MongoDB add support for SQL, SQL databases add increasingly strong support for JSON operations. Let’s compare the JSON support from the two leading open ...

As soon as NoSQL databases started to become mainstream, SQL database vendors began to feel some effects. The easiest thing for traditional database vendors has been to add support for storage of JSON ...

Document store databases let you manage records that are long and have varied structure. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

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.