{"id":41560,"date":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/experts\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-nosql-database-and-a-traditional-database-management-system\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:29:09","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-nosql-database-and-a-traditional-database-management-system","status":"publish","type":"q-a","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/7\/31991\/storage\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-nosql-database-and-a-traditional-database-management-system","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a NoSQL database and a traditional database management system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/27689\/nosql-database\">NoSQL database<\/a> is a database that doesn&#39;t use traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/1234\/relational-database-rdb\">relational database<\/a> methods. NoSQL databases have different approaches to the storage of information, and often make it easier for complex or distributed systems to access database information.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong><em>Webinar: Moving Relational Databases Beyond the Traditional<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/reg\/forward-momentum-moving-relational-beyond-traditional\/31940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register Here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In traditional relational databases, data exists in set tables and is accessed by SQL or structured career language commands. By contrast, NoSQL databases are built in a number of different ways, for example, with key\/value stores, document storage methods, graph methods, or object store methods. Some of these databases may handle structured query language as a means of retrieving data. Many of them are designed for performance, scalability, flexibility and complexity, but may lack a superior build for immediate data consistency. However, on the whole, the use of NoSQL is increasing, partly because of the use of these tools with big data and real-time Web systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NoSQL database is a database that doesn&#39;t use traditional relational database methods. NoSQL databases have different approaches to the storage of information, and often make it easier for complex or distributed systems to access database information. 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