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by Angela Guess 10gen offers a resource on their website that compares NoSQL features to those of SQL databases. The description of the feature by feature comparison states, “Relational, or SQL, databases were developed in the 1970s to deal with that era’s data storage challenges and environment. But with the growth of the web,...
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by Angela Guess Tom Krazit of GigaOM recently covered a debate regarding which database solution is better, SQL or NoSQL. He reports, “Everybody likes a good technology debate: Mac vs. PC, Android vs. iOS, Larry Ellison vs. the world. On Thursday panelists at GigaOM Structure turned their attention to the world of databases: SQL or NoSQL?...
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by Angela Guess Barry Devlin of Smart Data Collective recently examined how well Business Intelligence and NoSQL databases can work together. He begins, “Business intelligence (BI) has long been associated with relational databases and the SQL language. From the earliest days of data warehousing, the qualities of the relational model have been highly valued...
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by Angela Guess The App Man over at Sys-Con Media has posted a new article regarding what he refers to as the Data Cloud. The article begins, “As data has grown exponentially at many sites, companies have been forced to horizontally scale their data. Some have turned to sharding of databases like Postrres or...
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by Angela Guess Roger du Mars recently wrote, “As unstructured data becomes more tangible, more manageable and more valuable, the spheres of SQL and NoSQL will necessarily expand their common ground. The Hadoop ecosystem, as DeWitt gleefully observed, incorporates substantial SQL components. Both Hive, a Hadoop-based data warehouse developed by Facebook, and Pig, a...
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by Robert Greene Because of the wealth of information presented by Big Data, businesses are asking more difficult questions of their data instead of searching for simple answers in tables that are found in traditional relational databases (RDBs). When presented with the amount of scale and complexity found in Big Data, RDBs often simply...
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by Angela Guess In a recent interview Alternative Technologies founder David McGoveran shared his thoughts on the rise of NoSQL solutions. He began, “NoSQL means different things to different people. Early on, it was portrayed as ‘not SQL.’ More recently, that’s been tempered somewhat and is considered ‘not only SQL.’ The big picture that...
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by Angela Guess Dr. Michael Stonebraker warned attendees of the NoSQL Now! Conference that “Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’… Instead, SQL (Structured Query Language) can be adopted to newer systems with a few technical adjustments,...
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by Angela Guess A recent article offers insight into the current state and future prospects of NoSQL solutions. Conor O’Mahony writes, “Matt Asay wrote an interesting article for The Register titled SQL Survives Murder Attempt by Mutant Stepchild where he opines that ‘NoSQL remains a tiny blip in the overall datastore universe.’ And he’s...
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by Angela Guess A recent article discusses the aspects of NoSQL solutions that are causing them to stand apart from the crowd. The article states, “Everywhere you look, there are new NoSQL databases — or ‘data stores,’ if you’re one of those who feel that the word ‘database’ can only be used by proper...
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