Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

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.

And while SQL provides standard access to relational databases, GraphQL can be used with any type of database – and it returns JSON documents. The modern approach is to build and deploy microservices ...

FaunaDB is the first database to use the Calvin cross-shard transactional protocol, which allows for single-phase commits without reliance on clocks and without loss of consistency. FaunaDB also ...

Key-value NoSQL database features compared Five widely used products (including one cloud service) are worth your consideration; they are explicitly billed as key-value databases or offer key ...

Oracle acquired an embedded NoSQL solution-Berkeley DB-from Sleepycat software in 2006. Ironically, this was considered by some to be in response to another disruptive threat-that of open source ...

Can NoSQL handle mission-critical workloads in the Enterprise? Will NoSQL and relational technologies coalesce? MarkLogic's Senior Product Marketing Manager shares his thoughts.

Azure SQL Database has a new feature in preview called "Managed Instances" that offers greater compatibility between on-premises SQL Server and the cloud variant, again to make workload migration ...

NoSQL: A Database for Cloud Computing With various advancements in the field of computing, scalability, resource utilization and power savings is being given higher priorities.

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison.