Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question ... The usual SQL suspects—SQL Server-Oracle-DB2-Postgres, et al.—aren't handling this new world on their own, and some say they can't.

You just have to look at how even the largest databases are changing, with Oracle adopting NoSQL patterns in its in-memory tools, as Microsoft's SQL Server does the same with its new column stores.

Complexity: In SQL server’s data has to fit into tables anyhow. If your data doesn’t fit into tables, you need to design your database structure that will be complex and, again, difficult to ...

Some processed by the client, and some by the server. Comparing that strategy to a declarative SQL query, how to project, how to sort, and all processing specified is left to the database.

Netflix is hiring, but SQL Server gurus need not apply. The company that transformed from a clunky DVD-by-mail delivery system to cutting-edge video streaming from the cloud has some SQL Server ...

Netflix is hiring, but SQL Server gurus need not apply. The company that transformed from a clunky DVD-by-mail delivery system to cutting-edge video streaming from the cloud has some SQL Server ...