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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The SQL language served as a universal language for data­base manipulation from the mid-1980s until NoSQL data­bases started gaining strength about 12 years ago. However, after a short period in the ...
The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...
Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...
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 ...
When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.