Everything about NewSQL

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: NewSQLA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Performance Evaluation of NewSQL Databases in a Distributed ArchitectureInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Database Management Using AIThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Data management in cloud environments: NoSQL and NewSQL data storesCited 185 times
5. Go sideways: VoltDBA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Distributed SQLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Data management in cloud environments: NoSQL and NewSQL data stores

  Katarina Grolinger, Wilson A Higashino, Abhinav Tiwari · 2013 · Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications · 185 citations

• What's Really New with NewSQL?

  Andrew Pavlo, Matthew Aslett · 2016 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 109 citations

• SQL vs. NoSQL vs. NewSQL- A Comparative Study

  Sneha Binani, Ajinkya Gutti, Shivam Upadhyay · 2016 · Communications on Applied Electronics · 22 citations

• NewSQL: Towards Next-Generation Scalable RDBMS for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) for Big Data Management

  A. B. M. Moniruzzaman · 2014 · International Journal of Database Theory and Application · 17 citations

• Architectural assessment of NoSQL and NewSQL systems

  Natalia Chaudhry, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf · 2020 · Distributed and Parallel Databases · 12 citations

• NewSQL Databases Assessment: CockroachDB, MariaDB Xpand, and VoltDB

  Eduardo Pina, Filipe Sá, Jorge Bernardino · 2022 · Future Internet · 10 citations

• Top NewSQL Databases and Features Classification

  Ahmed Almassabi, Omar Bawazeer, Salahadin Adam · 2018 · International Journal of Database Management Systems · 8 citations

• NewSQL Database Management System Compiler Errors: Effectiveness and Usefulness

  Toni Taipalus, Hilkka Grahn · 2022 · International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction · 8 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Performance Evaluation of NewSQL Databases in a Distributed Architecture

  Zhiyao Zhang, Alan Megargel, Lingxiao Jiang · 2025 · IEEE Access · 3 citations

• An Autonomous Hybrid Data Partitioning Approach for NewSQL Databases

  Geomar A. Schreiner, Rafael De Santiago, Denio Duarte · 2026 · Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society · 1 citations

• The main categories of NewSQL databases and their features

  V.I. Yesin, V.V. Vilihura · 2022 · Radiotekhnika · 1 citations

• SQL vs NoSQL vs NewSQL: A Comparative Study of Modern Database Technologies

  Usha B A, Srivatsala V, Yashaswini E · 2026 · International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering Hub (IRJAEH) · 0 citations

• Multi-model Database Design and Query Processing in NewSQL DBMSs

  Joachim Tankoano · 2025 · American Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Database Management Using AI · 2024

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• CockroachDB CockroachDB is a source-available distributed SQL database management system developed by Cockroach Labs. The relational functionality is built on top…
• Clustrix Clustrix, Inc. is a San Francisco-based private company founded in 2006 that developed a database management system marketed as NewSQL. Clustrix was founded…
• TiDB TiDB (/ˈtaɪdiːbiː/; "Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source NewSQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads…