This is the second part of an ongoing series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know. In that first part, I explained different NoSQL Database types and provided a few use cases suitable for each type. But that is not sufficient when you are […]
Are You Paying Too Much for Your Database Management System? Making Sense of Licensing Structures
Click to learn more about author Franco Rizzo. A flexible licensing model allows a company to invest more in the innovative ventures that will drive revenue, and less in core business processes. If you ask someone to name a handful of highly innovative companies, Apple is almost certainly one of the first to spring to […]
Clustrix and Zettaset Partner for Performance-Optimized RDBMS Encryption
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Clustrix, the leader in scale-out SQL and Zettaset, the leader in Big Data security, today announced a business and technology partnership that will transform data protection and privacy for companies that rely on large-scale OLTP databases. The benefits of the relationship are now available to customers who […]
A Review of Different Database Types: Relational versus Non-Relational
Relational databases are also called Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) or SQL databases. Historically, the most popular of these have been Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL, and IBM DB2. The RDBMS’s are used mostly in large enterprise scenarios, with the exception of MySQL, which is also used to store data for Web applications. All […]
The Dawn of NewSQL: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional RDBMS and NoSQL
Click here to learn more about author Jeff Boehm. In the history of computing, the introduction of the relational database helped spark an explosion of application development and delivery. Yet while that technology has experienced improvements over the decades, it’s built on 30-year-old concepts of computing. Modern day organizations have a clear strategy toward globalization […]
NoSQL vs. SQL: It’s About the Performance and Scale
Learn more about Dale Kim. If you’re an application developer with years of experience in relational database management systems (RDBMS) and SQL, you might still use those trusted technologies for most of your application needs. But you might be hearing a lot about NoSQL databases, and how they can be a better fit for your […]
Pros and Cons: Warehouse vs. Data Lakes
Learn more about Thomas Hazel. This column will not be the proverbial “Pros and Cons” article, weighing the good with the bad. One can find such content habitually year after year and month after month, all of which will outline the obvious advantages and disadvantage between any two things. This is particularly prevalent in the […]
Introduction to: SPARQL
SPARQL is the standardized query language for RDF, the same way SQL is the standardized query language for relational databases. If this is the first time you look at SPARQL, but you’re familiar with SQL, you will see some similarities because it shares several keywords such as SELECT, WHERE, etc. It also has new keywords that you have never seen if […]