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To SQL or to NoSQL? That's been a common question ever since NoSQL databases started to make their mark with developers a few years back. Thanks to high-profile success stories like Netflix, NoSQL seemed like the better way to deal with the data loads of the future.

But the hard truth is that SQL and NoSQL both provide features the other doesn't, with SQL most valuable where consistency of data is required. A new survey of database use called "Database Usage in the Public and Private Cloud: Choices and Preferences," conducted and published by Tesora, shows that SQL and NoSQL are being used side-by-side rather than one eclipsing the other.

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