NoSQL data systems, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase, have seen explosive growth because they can capture large amounts of unstructured data from websites and mobile applications. NoSQL ...

SQL has faded in popularity as people working in the field of AI switch to NoSQL databases. The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest position ...

NoSQL database fans now have more to get excited about with the release of Couchbase Server 2.0 along with a NoSQL query language called UnQL. Couchbase has been developed by the company formed by the ...

Pretty much every blog, article or discussion you see about the SQL vs. NoSQL debate includes sage advice from a reasonable voice of authority along the lines of something like this: Whoa! Let's calm ...

Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query ...

Last year Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman of Microsoft Research published a paper making the case for a common language for NoSQL databases. A year later, there’s been some progress towards this goal, ...

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 ...

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.

Versant Corporation, a worldwide leader in developing data management software infrastructure for complex, mission-critical applications,today announced the free, pre-release version of Versant JPA ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

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 ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...