With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want. It’s not unusual ...

Couchbase Inc., long the champion of its "world's highest-performing NoSQL distributed database platform," has apparently decided that this SQL stuff isn't so bad after all, having announced a new ...

Running a multi-channel loyalty and engagement platform requires a lot of data. With 18,000 loyalty programs running across Web, mobile, social, and email channels, the folks at PunchTab are up to ...

At the Couchbase Connect 2015 conference today, Couchbase revealed that it has developed an implementation of SQL that can be applied to a document database based on the JavaScript Object Notation ...

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Long synonymous with relational databases, Oracle wants to tell developers that it's not only for SQL programmers or priced just for enterprises. And so, it's announcing a new JSON-only document ...

Oracle has introduced the availability of Autonomous JSON Database—a new developer-friendly database service. The new service was announced in an Oracle blog post by Beda Hammerschmidt. According to ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even ...

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 ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...