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 ...

NoSQL describes what these databases remove rather than what they add and implies that the SQL language is a problem—and the only problem—to be solved. In reality, the non-relational movement was ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

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 ...

Couchbase’s SQL query language, called N1QL, is now ready for business in the beta of Couchbase Server 4.0, the company announced today. While Couchbase isn’t giving up on NoSQL concepts or ...

Many embedded applications require a database of sorts, but the type can vary widely from ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) to SQL (structure query language). While SQL is readily available on ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

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What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa Clara, ...

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores. After ...