Are vendor claims that big data, IoT and NoSQL killed RDBMS credible? Nothing is that simple in the enterprise data center. I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a ...

Earlier this year, analyst firm Gartner came up with a name for a category of hybrid processing that it believes will cause upheaval in established architectures. The ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

This year is an expansive one for the database ecosystems that have evolved around the major platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud ...

Anyone who is deeply enmeshed in a technology feels compelled to defend that technology when any sort of “threat” (or perception of threat) appears on the horizon, and apparently Gavin is no different ...

If you've ever wondered what killed 4GLs the answer is a mistake - one that permeates almost everything in IT from about 1969 through to today. Codd's relational model wasn't designed as a solution to ...

From monolithic database servers to no database servers at all. Can the serverless computing paradigm change the landscape for relational databases technologies as well? Serverless computing, a ...

Have we come full circle in database technologies? At this year’s San Jose Strata conference, Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) provided a recap of the last 30 to 40 years of database history, and posed ...