NoSQL keeps rising, but relational databases still dominate big data Your email has been sent NoSQL promised to upend the database market as big data forced a sea change in how we think about and ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Nowadays, huge volumes of unstructured data are generated, and this cannot be restricted to standardized text inputs for the RDBMS. For example, every corporate entity has applications that generate ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote a post that sparked a pretty overwhelming response. The gist of the post, derived from an interview with database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, was that legacy SQL databases, ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...