If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

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, ...

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Two seemingly unconnected pieces of news signal an interesting market test: can standard relational-database software be effectively delivered from the cloud? James Urquhart is a field technologist ...

After MongoDB’s MDB annual investor session, we are increasing our fair value estimate for MongoDB shares to $379 per share from $335 per share out of increased confidence in MongoDB’s ability to ...

At the end of August, Microsoft released a preview of their Azure SQL database, a database rival to Amazon's Simple DB. But while Simple DB is non-relational and designed for fast querying, the Azure ...

Have you noticed that relational "technology" seems to be taking a beating these days? With new “data models” and types of database systems purported to be better than relational, it seems that the ...

Relational DB Service enables the provisioning of database environments on-demand without having to purchase new hardware or manage complex licensing models. Designed for enterprises both large and ...

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 ...

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 ...