In the world of database technology, there are two main types of databases: SQL and NoSQL—or, relational databases and non-relational databases. The difference speaks to how they’re built, the type of ...

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In some cases, NoSQL databases will do the trick, Microsoft researchers assert The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...

Microsoft has just shipped out its first-ever non-relational database on Windows Azure, which also happens to be its first database product of any kind since releasing its legendary SQL Server. Called ...

Microsoft announced the general availability this week of Azure DocumentDB, its NoSQL database as a service for developers and IT pros. The Azure DocumentDB service is designed to store document data ...

The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs standardization in order to thrive, two Microsoft researchers argue in the new issue of the Association for Computing Machinery’s ...

The researchers offer a data model and query language they call coSQL that could be used to unify NoSQL and SQL data models The ever-growing number of non-relational, or NoSQL, databases needs ...