Explaining SQL and NoSQL, to Grandma

One of the most essential choices a developer must make is about what database technology to use. For many years, the options were limited to different flavors of relational databases that supported Structured Query Language (SQL). These include MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DB2, to name a few.

Over the last 15 years, many new databases have come to the market as part of the No-SQL…