For many other NoSQL systems, support for SQL is rendered moot by their schema-free design. Schemas essentially restrict and define the types of records that can be stored in a database.

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

Major NoSQL systems are flexible enough to better enable developers to use the applications in ways that meet their needs. SQL NoSQL Comparision and Conclusion: ...

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

NoSQL describes what these databases remove rather than what they add and implies that the SQL language is a problem—and the only problem—to be solved. In reality, the non-relational movement was ...

SQL-based relational database systems are indeed as moribund as NoSQL advocates charge, he argued. But this is the fault of the database vendors themselves, not SQL.

As more computing functions move to the cloud, a relatively new database format — NoSQL — is poised to take the place of the SQL database on which so many manufacturers rely. Automation experts weigh ...

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 ...

The place to be Donald Chamberlin (pictured), the visionary behind SQL, is now championing NoSQL. After celebrating SQL's half-century, he reckons that NoSQL is the way to go for stuff that ...

The gap between conventional SQL and NoSQL databases has been narrowing over time with the addition of SQL querying for NoSQL systems, such as Splice Machine.