The relational database management system (RDBMS) held a stranglehold on enterprise data management from the mid-1980s through to the mid-2000s. For 25 years the question was never “should I use a ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

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Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture.

To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a dif­ferent animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have ...

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving engines of insight. In the fast-evolving landscape of enterprise data ...