Data and business intelligence (BI) are two sides of the same coin. Advancements in storage, processing, and analysis have democratized data to the point where you don't need to be a database ...

Just as it's hard to imagine any small business existing today without a veritable fleet of personal computers, it's almost as hard to imagine any small business not maintaining some kind of database.

Some NoSQL databases focus on speed, some on scale, while others aim at relationships or offline use. The right choice depends on how your ...

A graph database can help you discover connections in your data you never imagined; here’s how to get started Alaa Mahmoud is an advisory software engineer and master inventor at IBM Analytics Cloud ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Next-generation database companies are developing technologies to help businesses manage increasing volumes of data and increasingly complex data types. Not Your Father’s Relational Database The world ...

In the data warehousing arena, development databases often get short shrift. Frequently, this situation arises because development databases are considered too much work to be done properly. So, ...

Quest extends its Toad line of database developer tools for non-relational databases Quest Software has posted a free beta version of a software program that will allow database administrators and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) is a database optimization technique. MVCC creates ...