Also, if I chose to have no relationships in my SQL and simply pulled table data directly, it would be exactly as fast or faster than NoSql. 9) Flexibility is a double-edged sword.

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases.Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

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 databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

SQL is a relatively innocent bystander, but, because SQL is a universal feature of the RDBMS, the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, ...

They wanted the ability to perform multi table joins, and multi conditions statements. Them, and pretty much everyone else in the database world. The convergence of SQL and NoSQL solutions is ...

NoSQL databases (also called “Not Only SQL databases”) may be a better fit than relational databases if you face one or more of these concerns: The data has little, or inconsistent, structure ...

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.

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 ...