Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

NoSQL databases grew in popularity for use in highly distributed web applications that needed scale-out architectures but didn’t require the tabular relations used by traditional SQL relational ...

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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 an ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a “We don’t need no stinking SQL” attitude to a “Can I please have some SQL with that?” philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

To SQL or to NoSQL? That’s been a common question ever since NoSQL databases started to make their mark with developers a few years back. Thanks to high-profile success stories like Netflix, NoSQL ...

Database software vendor FoundationDB has acquired Akiban, another purveyor of database software, in a move to develop a hybrid data-store application capable of storing both SQL and non-SQL data.