For years now there's been a constant war between Microsoft supporters and Oracle supporters. Oracle has these features, SQL Server has these features, etc. But that's not really where the real ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

A less obvious, but still significant, difference between SQL and NoSQL databases is the format the databases use for their responses.

SQL, NoSQL? What's the difference these days? SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge.