NoSQL databases grew in popularity for use in highly distributed web applications that needed scale-out architectures but didn’t require the tabular relations used by traditional SQL relational ...

Structured data stored in relational databases has ruled the world for the last 40 years. Over that time, Structured Query Language (SQL) emerged as the standard for accessing and manipulating data ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

TIOBE Programming Index News June 2025: SQL Falls to Record Low Popularity Your email has been sent The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest ...

The cloud is forcing major platform companies to expose their secret sauce to the world. Last week at the Build conference, Microsoft announced Service Fabric, a microservices platform that the ...

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be “throwing the baby out with the bath water,” warned a database pioneer before a roomful of ...