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.

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014 at ...

NoSQL allows data to be casually self-referential in ways that are more complex for SQL databases to emulate. The Structured Query Language used by relational databases provides a uniform way to ...

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

As a result, the emergence of JSON-based NoSQL databases without a standard rich query language forced programmers into a dilemma: Either leverage the power of standard SQL, but be constrained by ...

The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

“With N1QL, we are SQL 92 compliant, which means if you write a query, you would not know if the query is executing on a relational database or on a NoSQL database,” explains Ravi Mayuram, vice ...

Couchbase NoSQL Database gets the SQL Religion Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor June 4, 2015 at 2:51 p.m. PT What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language?

However, the success of relational databases could be boiled down to two practical considerations: momentum and the power of the SQL query language. So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run ...