eWEEK and Dave Rosenthal, co-founder of FoundationDB, offer 10 reasons your NoSQL database should support transactions.

These SQL relational databases offer both horizontal scalability and support for ACID transactions—some on a global scale ...

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

Modern relational databases need to handle multiple transactions simultaneously (via a process known as Online Transaction Processing – OLTP).

The introduction of increased transactional capability into non-relational databases makes sense-in the same way that providing SQL layers on top of Hadoop and many other non-relational stores makes ...

SQL databases are limited to a single machine but provide strong transactions, schemas, and querying; NoSQL databases abandon transactions and schemas in order to provide scale and fault tolerance.

Using the Transact SQL ALTER DATABASE statement to shrink the transaction log file Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and click Query Analyzer to open the Query Analyzer window.

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

Via a 7.0 upgrade, Couchbase is adding support for multi-statement SQL transactions to reduce database costs.