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

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

The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

Webscale transaction and personalization is the ‘poster child’ for NoSQL, he said, while real-time event processing and sensor data management are other key use cases. When considering a NoSQL ...

NoSQL is a broad category of disparate database technologies, most of which have come to market in the past decade. NewSQL is a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matt Aslett to describe a new group of ...

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

To Andrew Davidson, senior vice president of products at MongoDB, the database business operates in an entirely different type of market than traditional software, where vendors might sell their ...

For example, customer data could go into a relational database, linked to a non-relational database for unstructured data such as product reviews and recommendations. It's all about flexibility.

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

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 ...