SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

The SQL/NoSQL debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure, with which manufacturers are most familiar, or hitch our wagons to the NoSQL ...

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 ...