The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

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 ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...