A NoSQL database that perfectly suits a real-time app may not even function for traditional statistics. So both relational and NoSQL databases have valuable roles in data analytics.

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

Ever since NoSQL burst onto the mainstream database world in the late 1990s there have been a group of people who have been saying that NoSQL is going to kill off the relational database engine.

A relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement and explains how to choose the right database for your application.

While relational databases still dominate IT budgets, many new development projects are turning to NoSQL databases, which have emerged in recent years to serve all sorts of interesting use cases.

Companies are slow to switch out trusted databases, but NoSQL is having an impact. Matt Asay explains.

But do not let anybody tell you that NoSQL will overtake relational/SQL or that ACID is not important for most business applications. NoSQL does not replace relational/SQL, it augments it. It is also ...

Though NoSQL originally developed as a flexible and agile alternative to relational database systems, non-relational databases haven’t yet gained wide acceptability in the large enterprise segment.

Relational databases may keep old stack workloads, but Morgan Stanley research suggests NoSQL databases will own the next generation of apps The relational database has had an astonishingly good ...

NoSQL attacked both relational databases and SQL in the same vein. The main problem this time was that the Internet had destroyed the underlying premise of the 40-year-old relational database ...