NoSQL promises kept and promises broken NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

For many other NoSQL systems, support for SQL is rendered moot by their schema-free design. Schemas essentially restrict and define the types of records that can be stored in a database.

RDBMS: Relational Database Management System. SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it's being done.

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

Hybrid SQL-NoSQL database solutions combine the advantage of being compatible with many SQL applications and providing the scalability of NoSQL ones. Xeround offers such a solution as a service in ...