Relational databases for operations on large data sets are contraindicated because SQL queries tend to consume many CPU cycles and thrash the disk as they process data.

But SQL wasn’t always the “universal” language for relational databases. From the beginning (circa 1980), SQL had certain strikes against it.

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Relational (SQL) databases store data in tables with strictly-defined relationships between tables. Non-relational (NoSQL) databases are more flexible and allow for less organized and less ...

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The SQL language undoubtedly carries with it a lot of relational baggage, but, as the Cassandra folks have shown, there may be cases where SQL-like syntax provides a more productive interface, even ...

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison.

The idea of running transactions and analytics on the same database is not new but it's been held back by technology. But things in the hybrid world have been changing.