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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

On top of business's growing frustration with proprietary software, the relational database model championed by the big vendors is looking increasingly dated, according to the CEO of leading ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

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When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

Imagine that you have coupons that you wanted to push to mobile customers that purchase a specific item. This is a customer facing system of engagement requires location data, purchase data, wallet ...

The rise of new data types is leading to new ways of thinking about data, and newer data storage and management technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, and NoSQL, are disruptive forces that may ...