Idriss Mekrez, chief technology officer for the public sector at MarkLogic, has said government agencies should implement an enterprise-grade NoSQL database to help collect and analyze large volumes ...

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 were born out of the need to scale transactional persistence stores more efficiently. In a world where the relational database management system (RDBMS) was king, this was easier said ...

In the last Mongo Matters column, we looked at MongoDB’s new SQL interface for querying data in MongoDB Atlas. Almost all of the “NoSQL” databases today support some form of SQL interface in order to ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.

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 ...

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 ...