To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

A NoSQL database has flexible data requirements, making it a better fit for applications that will evolve over time than an SQL database.

NoSQL attacked both relational databases and SQL in the same vein. The main problem this time was that the Internet had destroyed the underlying premise of the 40-year-old relational database ...

NoSQL is building momentum of its own, and providing the familiarity and power of SQL is how it's being done.

NoSQL databases designed to store and manage JSON documents started gaining popularity in the early 2000s thanks to the increase of unstructured data.

Although NoSQL has generated some noise of late, SQL continues to win in the marketplace and continues to earn investment and adoption throughout the big data problem space.

NoSQL represents the modern themes in database management, for example the simplicity of design, storing of massive amounts of data and scaling out horizontally in an easier way.

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

And, finally, the SQL language can be overused and complex, but this is largely the choice of the developer or adopted standards within an application group. So if most of the perceived weaknesses for ...

SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that are non-relational and do not use SQL as their ...