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 ...

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.

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 remains a popular choice and a proven solution when it comes to modern databases that handle large-volume analytic workloads and real-time transactions. Google, despite its early adoption of NoSQL ...

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. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014, 4: ...

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 ...

Even the biggest names in the NoSQL space — MongoDB and Hadoop — were in use with only 10 and 8 percent, respectively, of the respondents. DBaaS also showed only a modest degree of uptake.

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.