In 2008, with SQL-confounding Web data flooding the world and object-oriented programming all the rage as the tool to handle it, SQL was sneered at as if the venerable, powerful query language ...

Also, if I chose to have no relationships in my SQL and simply pulled table data directly, it would be exactly as fast or faster than NoSql. 9) Flexibility is a double-edged sword.

At the core, NoSQL databases are really “NoREL,” or non-relational, meaning they do not rely on tables and the links between tables in order to store and organize information.

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

Some NoSQL products can use SQL-like syntax to work with data, but only to a limited extent. For example, Apache Cassandra, a wide column store, has its own SQL-like language, the Cassandra Query ...

NoSQL, on the other hand, is an RDMS used in data warehousing. “Data is stored (in NoSQL) in a format similar to a flat table and generally not as highly normalized as SQL. This (NoSQL structure) is ...

N1QL extends SQL from traditionally operating on tables and rows (tuples) to operate on JSON (nested documents). It’s built on a nested recursive algebra for a nested recursive data model.

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.

Key-value stores like those found in NoSQL databases do work for certain kinds of data, but they don't work well at all for other kinds. It is instructive to point out that the companies that use and ...

The paper opens with observations that NoSQL databases are generally built to handle certain data models. Tencent admits it ran several of them to power its fleet of products – social networks ...