SQL vs NoSQL.
SQL vs NoSQL. By Jeewantha Hiddalarachchi. In this tutorial, I going to discuss the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases. Let's start with a brief explanation about SQL and NoSQL. What is SQL? Structured Query language (SQL) is the standard language to communicate and deal with relational databases. A relational database is a form of tables. Basically, we use SQL to insert, search, update and delete database records but it helps users to do lots of things like optimizing and maintenance of databases. SQL databases are table-based databases and there are vertically scalable. Not only that but also SQL has a predefined schema and always requires specialized DB hardware for better performance. Examples SQL databases - MySQL Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Sybase What is NoSQL? NoSQL is a non-relational Database Management System. And also NoSQL not like SQL because it does not require a fixed schema, avoids joins. It is mainly focused on scaling, fast queries, allowing for fr
