The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...

Structured data stored in relational databases has ruled the world for the last 40 years. Over that time, Structured Query Language (SQL) emerged as the standard for accessing and manipulating data ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

Couchbase is introducing a new query language that unites legacy SQL to the modern NoSQL, providing what the company says is the best of both worlds for developers and the enterprise. “NoSQL is really ...

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 ...

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 Clara, ...

Couchbase Inc. today announced an upgrade of its flagship NoSQL database system designed to help enterprises with extensive SQL experience and talent move to the NoSQL world. And why do that?

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 ...

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 ...