Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

eWEEK and Dave Rosenthal, co-founder of FoundationDB, offer 10 reasons your NoSQL database should support transactions.

The introduction of increased transactional capability into non-relational databases makes sense-in the same way that providing SQL layers on top of Hadoop and many other non-relational stores makes ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

Modern relational databases need to handle multiple transactions simultaneously (via a process known as Online Transaction Processing – OLTP).

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 ...

These SQL relational databases offer both horizontal scalability and support for ACID transactions—some on a global scale ...

ACID, though, doesn't matter much when you're just reading data for analysis. And the database locks that SQL databases use to protect database consistency in transactions can get in the way.

Via a 7.0 upgrade, Couchbase is adding support for multi-statement SQL transactions to reduce database costs.

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...