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, ...

Start coding a new database in your garage with a buddy of yours. Use JavaScript. Name it after your dog. Patent your own data model. Do not go open source. Take over the world. That is HarperDB's ...

Oracle today released an upgrade to its MySQL database that combines the best attributes of SQL and NoSQL databases. Version 7.4 of MySQL Cluster is based on an open source NoSQL database engine that ...

MariaDB, one of the most popular forks of MySQL, has announced the availability of version 10. This new release brings significant performance improvements in both speed and scalability compared to ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost, though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch. The new 2019 Database Trends ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...

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 ...

Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by Apple. That all changed Thursday when Apple announced that the core of ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...