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 ...

A new class of databases called NewSQL has emerged, leveraging the best of NoSQL and SQL. Coined in 2011 by Matt Aslett, an analyst with the 451 Group, the term “NewSQL” describes a category of ...

For many organizations, then, big data requires newer technology strategies, especially platforms including the open-source Hadoop framework and NoSQL databases that maintain hierarchical structures.

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 ...