In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

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TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

Dheeraj Yadav exemplifies excellence in Oracle database administration with over 18 years of transformative experience across critical enterprise systems. His expertise spans both on-premises and AWS ...

Microsoft has announced general availability of SQL Server 2025, Fabric Databases, and Rebranded Azure DocumentDB at the ...

During QCon SF, Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li from DBOS presented a non-conventional architectural approach to workflow ...

One of the major challenges for the IT companies today is how to manage large growing volumes of data and how to produce a quality driven software product ensuring optimal utilization of resources ...

The term “NoSQL” is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

With data volumes spiraling out of control, companies are searching for less expensive and more efficient storage technologies. The most common approaches for storing data have been with disk and ...

Several major database systems provide extensions to support the management and analysis of spatial data in a relational database system (IBM02, Ora01 and IBM01). The functionality is also ...