I was quite surprised to see a recent Slashdot post titled "SQL vs. NoSQL: Which is Better?" My first thought was: "Really? Hasn't this already been settled?" The politically correct answer to the ...

Instead, it's SQL and NoSQL, with both having their own clear places—and increasingly being integrated into each other. Microsoft, Oracle, and Teradata, for example, are now all selling some ...

CTOEdge.com said Quest seeks “to act as a peacemaker between the emerging NoSQL databases and proponents of traditional SQL database software.” Toad uses a GUI with visual query and data access ...

The articles on NoSQL databases ... not given up on SQL RDBMSes. They continue to use them in vital roles. Finally, many of the NoSQL ideas are based on old technology. Key-value stores have been ...

DBTA recently hosted a webinar sponsored by AWS, titled “Using Your Existing SQL Skills to Shape Data for NoSQL,” featuring speaker Robert ... The webinar is bolstered by a variety of visual examples ...

The company that transformed from a clunky DVD-by-mail delivery system to cutting-edge video streaming from the cloud has some SQL Server developers worried about their future job prospects as Netflix ...

You just have to look at how even the largest databases are changing, with Oracle adopting NoSQL patterns in its in-memory tools, as Microsoft's SQL Server does the same with its new column stores.

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 ...