NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...

After building a user-base which includes Comcast, GE, and UPS, Couchbase reached terms with Haveli Investments late last ...

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 ...

But in a way, SQL was a baby thrown out with the bathwater; it was the transactional model of the RDBMS, not the SQL language which powered the NoSQL revolution. Over the past 10 years we’ve seen a ...

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-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.

So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run counter to those strengths. But in reality, NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it’s being ...

The analytic capabilities of most NoSQL database are “sub-optimal by any measure,” Cubukcu says. “The Achilles Heel of those solutions is the analytics,” he says. “If you want to run these ad hoc ...

SQL Query Capability - Enables SQL queries on NoSQL Cassandra data. Cassandra 2.x Compatibility - Leverages the faster performance and improved security of Cassandra V2.x.

Today, a company called Yugabyte, which has built an open-source distributed SQL database model to help handle all that volume, is announcing that it has raised $188 million at a valuation of over ...