NoSQL basics NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original ...

RDBMS: Relational Database Management System. SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that ...

NoSQL vendors have been eating into the relational database market, helping organizations shed silos over time. It is not a fast process for organizations to transition out of their trusted databases.

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.