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 ...

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

To learn more about what can be done with N1QL visit the Couchbase N1QL tutorial. Building a new language as an extension to SQL provides the advantage of using the same vocabulary and syntax as SQL.

Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce ...

And, finally, the SQL language can be overused and complex, but this is largely the choice of the developer or adopted standards within an application group. So if most of the perceived weaknesses for ...

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

As more computing functions move to the cloud, a relatively new database format — NoSQL — is poised to take the place of the SQL database on which so many manufacturers rely. Automation experts weigh ...

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 are non-relational and do not use SQL as their ...

Couchbase 4.0 elegantly integrates SQL and JSON, maintaining schema-independence while adding support for joins and a range of BI tools.

Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...