NoSQL basics NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

These provide some of the things that SQL-based relational databases do but are tuned heavily for handling the demands of big data. VoltDB falls into this category: it's a high-speed SQL database.

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

A NoSQL database has flexible data requirements, making it a better fit for applications that will evolve over time than an SQL database.

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.

The presentation showcases how multi-model, multimode databases support a combination of the SQL and NoSQL data models, especially JSON and key-value, as well as other workloads.

The SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...

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