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 ...

By adopting techniques from SQL, NoSQL is able to support ... inflection point in the history of the database, with a wide choice of engines, APIs, query types, and data schema.

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a programming language ... which includes classic relational databases as a subset. NoSQL database also trades off “ACID” (atomicity, consistency, isolation ...

However, the success of relational databases could be boiled down to two practical considerations: momentum and the power of the SQL query language. So-called “NoSQL” technology seems to run ...

NoSQL allows data to be casually self-referential in ways that are more complex for SQL databases to emulate. The Structured Query Language used by relational databases provides a uniform way to ...

As a result, the emergence of JSON-based NoSQL databases without a standard rich query language forced programmers into a dilemma: Either leverage the power of standard SQL, but be constrained by ...

the term “NoSQL” seemed a catchy and convenient tag for these new breed of databases. And, it’s true that, at least initially, these new databases shunned SQL as a query language, most notably because ...

“With N1QL, we are SQL 92 compliant, which means if you write a query, you would not know if the query is executing on a relational database or on a NoSQL database,” explains Ravi Mayuram, vice ...

In fact, many NoSQL databases have added support for SQL-style queries. But in a world where enterprises are deluged by unstructured data from mobile, social, cloud, sensors, and other sources ...