PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

While SQL is readily available on most platforms these days, there are other alternatives—including NoSQL and NewSQL—that have arisen to address “big data,” as well as less-structured content.

SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.

“SQL and MySQL are traditional relational database management systems” for manufacturers, says Roger Herrscher, P.E., senior electrical engineer at Opto 22, Temecula, CA. “NoSQL and NewSQL databases ...

Sytze Harkema explains how to save and retrieve relational SQL data into a NoSQL key-value store as implemented by FoundationDB, an open source, scalable, fault tolerant and ACID database.

SQL-based relational database systems are indeed as moribund as NoSQL advocates charge, he argued. But this is the fault of the database vendors themselves, not SQL.

The gap between conventional SQL and NoSQL databases has been narrowing over time with the addition of SQL querying for NoSQL systems, such as Splice Machine.