Although NoSQL has generated some noise of late, SQL continues to win in the marketplace and continues to earn investment and adoption throughout the big data problem space.

Toad Data Studio features an advanced SQL editor, SQL and DDL generation, and the ability to edit JSON and XML fields directly within table fields or in their own separate editing window.

A new data model. Before we get to the query language, let’s first examine the data model. Since the early ’90s, most business applications were developed in object-oriented programming models.

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 ...

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

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison. There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many ...

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.

The power of SQL. Let’s review the power of SQL by supposing that it doesn’t exist: there is no declarative language for working with data. Instead, we have to work imperatively.

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, ...

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 ...