To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa ...

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 ...

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

A next-generation query language for document databases extends SQL to work with semi-structured data ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

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: ...

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 NoSQL systems ...

Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal scalability, and higher availability than traditional SQL databases, sometimes at the cost of weaker consistency.

There is no query language for key-value stores, instead using basic CRUD (create, retrieve, update, and delete) commands. Popular key-value stores are Memcached, Redis, RocksDB, and Riak. Key-value ...