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

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.

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 SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...

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 ...

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

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.

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.

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.

A NoSQL database is exactly the type of database that can handle the sort of unstructured, messy and unpredictable data that our system of engagement requires.