This year is an expansive one for the database ecosystems that have evolved around the major platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud ...

Are vendor claims that big data, IoT and NoSQL killed RDBMS credible? Nothing is that simple in the enterprise data center. I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a ...

The information below serves as a brief primer to help you better understand the database terms you’ll most often encounter. Relational Databases. Relational databases became the database of choice ...

Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

If you've ever wondered what killed 4GLs the answer is a mistake - one that permeates almost everything in IT from about 1969 through to today. Codd's relational model wasn't designed as a solution to ...

NoSQL entered the scene nearly six years ago as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The offerings from the major relational vendors couldn’t cut it in terms of the cost, scalability, ...

Have we come full circle in database technologies? At this year’s San Jose Strata conference, Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) provided a recap of the last 30 to 40 years of database history, and posed ...

Earlier this year, analyst firm Gartner came up with a name for a category of hybrid processing that it believes will cause upheaval in established architectures. The ...