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There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational 'SQL' databases. For application developers this ...
To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.
NoSQL databases grew in popularity for use in highly distributed web applications that needed scale-out architectures but didn’t require the tabular relations used by traditional SQL relational ...
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.
SQL has the impressive track record, the large installed base, but NoSQL is making impressive gains and has many proponents. We put the question to experts in both camps.
SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.
To SQL or to NoSQL? That’s been a common question ever since NoSQL databases started to make their mark with developers a few years back. Thanks to high-profile success stories like Netflix ...
The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...
Non-structured databases predate SQL. MUMPS dates to 1966, and is perhaps the canonical NoSQL database. It is a key-value store in almost exactly the same fashion as Mongo or Couch.