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 ...

Structured data stored in relational databases has ruled the world for the last 40 years. Over that time, Structured Query Language (SQL) emerged as the standard for accessing and manipulating data ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a “We don’t need no stinking SQL” attitude to a “Can I please have some SQL with that?” philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...

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, ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

As any developer knows, the technology industry is defined by innovation discoveries and new emerging solutions. One of the most popular growing movements in current times is the switch to NoSQL ...

Though NoSQL originally developed as a flexible and agile alternative to relational database systems, non-relational databases haven’t yet gained wide acceptability in the large enterprise segment.

Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce, open ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost, though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch. The new 2019 Database Trends ...