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 ...

For over two decades, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft relational databases were the only consistent leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems--and there were few ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a multivalue database? Multivalue databases have tabular structure that ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom states that relational databases are not scalable or robust enough to handle the huge numbers of connections, the massive throughput, and all the cool tricks required to master IoT ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Jun 01, 2015, 03:01pm EDT Jun 01, 2015, 03:07pm EDT This ...

File-based databases have been around since the dawn of computing. We’ve always needed to have a way of storing records of the same kind of information. In the PC world, we ended up with very popular ...

When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one ...

HSBC Bank is one of the world’s leading financial institutions. It is simplifying its data model by running its applications on MongoDB. HSBC is one of the world's most recognisable banking and ...

At a time when every enterprise looks to leverage generative artificial intelligence, data sites are turning their attention to graph databases and knowledge graphs. The global graph database market ...