Talking about SQL database, the basic concept is that; it is a Relational database. Yes! SQL database is a relational database. So what exactly is a relational database? A relational database strictly ...

The articles on NoSQL databases in Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge column appearing in recent issues of LJ have been enjoyable. Because this is the Enterprise issue, I think it would be helpful to ...

Many embedded applications require a database of sorts, but the type can vary widely from ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) to SQL (structure query language). While SQL is readily available on ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

The term “NoSQL” is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

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 ...

Three mege trends big data, big user and cloud computing that leads to the adoption of NoSQL. NoSQL simply means Not Only SQL. Today most of the applications are hosted in cloud and that available ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you're bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Couchbase Server 4.0 addresses NoSQL’s biggest pain point with SQL-like query language for its document datastore Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores. After ...

Donald Chamberlin (pictured), the visionary behind SQL, is now championing NoSQL. After celebrating SQL's half-century, he reckons that NoSQL is the way to go for stuff that old-school databases just ...