It took a long time for software architects to look beyond structured databases as a solution to common problems, but there is little debate that NoSQL databases have filled a serious void in a ...

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Graph databases are gaining attention as enterprises work on their next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) applications. While still a bit of an outlier, graph-oriented databases continue to find ...

Businesses are struggling to cope with and leverage an explosion of complex and connected data. This need is driving many companies to adopt scalable, high performance NoSQL databases - a new breed of ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a graph database? Graph databases organize facts into connected bundles, ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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 ...

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

Every decade seems to have its database. During the 1990s, the relational database became the principal data environment, its ease of use and tabular arrangement making it a natural for the growing ...

In “The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 1 of 3)” I covered some background on the SQL language and relational databases, the current and future for relational databases, the rise of ...