Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but users may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up through the first decade of the 21st century, the world of relational databases wasn’t a particularly exciting one. From their arrival in the 1970s, relational databases mostly supported rather ...

This is something we've been discussing at work, and I wonder if there's any formal theory or other approaches we might be missing... It is quite common to have a concept of "state" in a database ...

Document databases offer a wonderfully flexible data model that often leads to scaling and performance issues. Here’s how Aerospike overcomes these challenges. Digital transformation continues to be a ...

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 ...

Microsoft today launched Dataflex, a relational database that lets business developers create, deploy, and manage Power Platform apps and chatbots without leaving Microsoft Teams. The built-in low ...

Legacy databases are a bottleneck to digital transformation, a Vanson Bourne survey of 450 heads of digital transformation in organisations with 1,000 employees has found. The survey, which is ...