NoSQL databases grew in popularity for use in highly distributed web applications that needed scale-out architectures but didn’t require the tabular relations used by traditional SQL relational ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NoSQL database vendor Couchbase has developed a SQL query language that will help developers with SQL expertise -- and there are millions of them -- build enterprise web, mobile and Internet-of-Things ...

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Quest Software has posted a free beta version of a software program that will allow database administrators and developers to better understand what is stored in non-relational databases. “For certain ...

Say what you will about Oracle, it certainly can’t be accused of failing to move with the times. Typically, Oracle comes late to a technology party but arrives dressed to kill. In the early 1990s, ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...