SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

MongoDB is at No. 4 of all databases, including both SQL and NoSQL, and it's the most popular NoSQL database. Wanderu started using it 3.5 years ago, or about six months before Matt Warren, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most relational databases had their own native database access methods, which offered superior performance compared to SQL, but over time the performance of SQL has improved and it has become ...

Thus, SQL drove the adoption of relational databases to near ubiquity. However, we’ve started to hit the limitations of what relational systems can do. Data no longer follows a uniform structure.

SQL is a relatively innocent bystander, but, because SQL is a universal feature of the RDBMS, the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, ...

Open source database pioneer Rasmus Johansson shares his views on the current debate around SQL and NoSQL database. Johansson has been VP of Engineering for SkySQL since 2013 and the merger of ...