Wanderu is powered by MongoDB, a "NoSQL" database—not by Structured Query Language (SQL) calls against traditional tables and rows. But why is that? Is the equation really as simple as "Web ...

You just have to look at how even the largest databases are changing, with Oracle adopting NoSQL patterns in its in-memory tools, as Microsoft's SQL Server does the same with its new column stores.

Integrated caching: In order to increase data through and increase performance, advanced NoSQL techniques cache data in system memory. This is in contrast to SQL database, which has to be done ...

SQL syntax is highly standardized, so while individual databases may handle certain operations differently (e.g., window functions), the basics remain the same. By contrast, each NoSQL database ...

Hadoop is a notable case in point: The support for SQL syntax in Hive opens up that system to a plethora of business intelligence tools. Escaping the Limitations of a Fixed Schema For many other NoSQL ...

A provider of a NoSQL datastore has implemented a new ... those top 10 use cases that they thought to build into the syntax of their SQL dialect, then you can’t solve the problem.” ...

Instead, SQL (Structured Query Language) can be adopted to newer systems with a few technical adjustments, giving it the full flexibility of NoSQL systems, argued Michael Stonebraker, the chief ...

So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database vendor Couchbase last week ... these non-relational features while retaining as much of the familiar SQL syntax as you can,” Chamberlin says.