A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

Data estates are expansive. Organizations in all business verticals are operating data stacks that run on a mixture of legacy technologies that work effectively but aren’t always easy to move or ...

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 ...

In a world that is all about new apps and cloud computing, sometimes the important stuff doesn’t look new or cool. Sometimes key small business tools are just functional, they might have been around a ...

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Reports of the death of the relational database have been greatly exaggerated – at least in the enterprise. According to a new study from Progress Software – the company’s latest annual data ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...