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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The landscape for database management systems is changing more rapidly these days than it has since the earliest days of the relational DBMS. Not only do we have an onslaught of NoSQL database systems ...

MS Access is a milder version of the popular client/server database system SQL Server that is ideal for small businesses. However, if necessary, Access databases can be easily converted to SQL Server.

What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.