Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

The relational database so dominates the thinking of information technology and business professionals that its presumed suitability for essentially all data management tasks is rarely questioned. But ...

Not all databases are created equal. In this video, we explore seven major database paradigms, including relational, ...

Conventional wisdom states that relational databases are not scalable or robust enough to handle the huge numbers of connections, the massive throughput, and all the cool tricks required to master IoT ...

Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday launched a new relational database called Aurora that aims to provide proprietary performance at the cost of open source. Aurora, introduced by AWS Senior Vice ...

Graph-relational database developer EdgeDB Inc. is gearing up for prime time after closing on a $15 million early-stage round of funding ahead of its official launch early next year. Today’s Series A ...