The term relational database is almost superfluous these days. After all, every major commercial database product—Oracle, Sybase, DB2—is based on the same underlying relational model. There are many ...

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison. There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL ...

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 ...

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) first introduced its relational database (the one that can be visualized in tables of rows and columns) in the late 1970s. While the Oracle database served user needs for decades, ...

Today’s applications—including enterprise applica­tions—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless ...

In this special guest feature, Jamie Clark, Senior Developer at Dimensional Insight, discusses why columnar databases are the future of business intelligence as massive amounts of data continue to ...