The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

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 ...

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 ...

This new debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure with which we are most familiar (read “Manufacturing Databases”) or hitch our wagons ...

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 ...

Amazon Aurora DSQL provides a distributed SQL database with 99.999% multi-Region availability, virtually unlimited scalability, strong consistency, and zero infrastructure management “Databases are a ...

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 NoSQL ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...