NoSQL databases grew in popularity for use in highly distributed web applications that needed scale-out architectures but didn’t require the tabular relations used by traditional SQL relational ...

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

Talking about SQL database, the basic concept is that; it is a Relational database. Yes! SQL database is a relational database. So what exactly is a relational database? A relational database strictly ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...

Robert Leonard, Opto 22 (top left), David McCarthy, TriCore (center), Travis Cox, Inductive Automation (top right), Roger Herrscher, Opto 22 (bottom left), Chirayu Shah, Rockwell Automation (bottom ...

This new debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure with which we are most familiar (read “Manufacturing Databases”) or hitch our wagons ...

To SQL or to NoSQL? That’s been a common question ever since NoSQL databases started to make their mark with developers a few years back. Thanks to high-profile success stories like Netflix, NoSQL ...