"The intellectual distance between document/JSON DBMSes and relational DBMSes is shrinking. At some point, the two system categories will be indistinguishable (at least in terms of the data model).

And, almost every relational and non-relational database is implementing robust support for JSON. At a minimum, N1QL illustrates that the core features of SQL still can apply, even for systems that ...

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

Document databases are considered to be non-relational (or NoSQL) databases. ... numbers, dates, arrays, or objects. Documents can be stored in formats like JSON, BSON, and XML.

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases.Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

Though NoSQL originally developed as a flexible and agile alternative to relational database systems, non-relational databases haven’t yet gained wide acceptability in the large enterprise segment.

In other words, non-relational databases have never been more popular, or more invisible in that popularity. Until Neo4j’s $325 million fund raise we’d all but forgotten databases at all, ...

Another type of non-relational database is the "object database," which stores data consistent with their object model (see object database). Comparing and Joining.