Databases are evolving. For the past decade, we’ve read thinkpiece after thinkpiece taking firm stances on the “SQL vs. NoSQL” debate — some of which declaratively pronounce the death of SQL or the death of NoSQL. In DZone’s annual report on SQL v NoSQL database usage, we’re excited to see that we’re moving beyond that paradigm. What we’re seeing in this report is more nuanced, and a lot more exciting: the death of the “SQL vs. NoSQL” binary altogether.

This is happening for a couple reasons. For one, more and more companies are using a combination of both for their business needs. They do not have one monolithic database — they run specific applications on the tools that best suit that workload. 58% of the companies surveyed in the report are using a combination of both.

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