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 ...

Here's a look at 10 real-world NoSQL use cases, demonstrating how companies from a variety of industries are employing this relatively new database.

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.

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

NoSQL is a broad category of disparate database technologies, most of which have come to market in the past decade. NewSQL is a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matt Aslett to describe a new group of ...

Thus, SQL drove the adoption of relational databases to near ubiquity. However, we’ve started to hit the limitations of what relational systems can do. Data no longer follows a uniform structure.

However, the success of relational databases could be boiled down to two practical considerations: momentum and the power of the SQL query language. So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run ...

Navigational databases offer exceptionally rapid data access in exchange for rigorous data structure requirements. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases ...

Couchbase NoSQL Database gets the SQL Religion Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor June 4, 2015 at 2:51 p.m. PT What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language?