For a long time, companies have been using relational databases (DB) to manage data. However, with the increasing use of ...

For a long time, companies have been using relational databases (DB) to manage data. However, with the increasing use of ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.

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 ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source ...

Databases using a command system separate from SQL are often collectively referred to as NoSQL database systems, sometimes said to stand for "not only SQL," and it can logically take a longer ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.