Tag: SQL vs. NoSQL

The Changing Landscape of Databases in Financial Services

November 29, 2017

For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face challenges with scalability and availability as the amount of data being processed and consumed shaped how companies conducted their business. NoSQL databases emerged as a reaction to these challenges and while they certainly helped address […]

FoundationDB’s Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enough

April 01, 2015

The sale and subsequent closure of FoundationDB cut short something of a grand experiment. FoundationDB, conceived as a Key-Value store, had decided to add flexibility in the form of programming and query-model “Layers” on top of its core KV store. First up was SQL, software that ran on top of core FoundationDB and provided SQL […]

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