Click here to learn more about Ariff Kassam. We’re at a unique inflection point in the database industry. Many things have changed over the last decade, but the cloud, containers, microservices, and the broader drivers for innovation – such as digital transformation – have created significant demand for new database technologies. Given the widespread focus […]
What Is a Non-Relational Database?
A non-relational database describes a database with flexible storage and retrieval. While NoSQL databases form a subset of non-relational databases, non-relational databases also encompass any system that deals with high volumes of unstructured data at a lower cost. Many non-relational databases support SQL-compatible queries too. Data lakes and cloud databases can also be considered non-relational […]
Rockset Partners with Tableau to Power Real-Time Dashboards on NoSQL Data
A recent press release states, “Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company that enables real-time SQL on NoSQL data, today announced the capability to build interactive, live Tableau dashboards on NoSQL data, without requiring users to write a single line of code. Making it possible to capture NoSQL data from sources such as Apache Kafka […]
Seeing the Database Through a Different Lens
Click to learn more about author Greg Nist. I was frustrated. I’d spent two-and-a-half years as a consultant developing software for a state government agency, and I felt like we were running on a treadmill. Our ability to drive the agency forward to more effectively run its operations was being constrained. Constrained not by the […]
The Challenges of Leveraging Big Data
Organizations from all over the world are gathering, analyzing, and evaluating huge data volumes from a large variety of sources, with the goal of increasing productivity and efficiency. Big Data Analytics is being used to stop credit card fraud, anticipate hardware failures, and reroute internet traffic to avoid congestion. Big Data technologies can improve network […]
Rockset Unveils Real-Time SQL Analytics for Raw Events from Apache Kafka
According to a new press release, “Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company that enables SQL on NoSQL data, today announced the capability to analyze raw events from Apache Kafka in real time. Kafka, backed by Confluent, is one of the most popular distributed streaming platforms and capable of handling trillions of events a day. […]
Modeling Misfit Types: Why Type Inheritance Is Not a Good Fit in Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. “Complete Consistence” Drives Temporality, … And What Else? In August I published a blog post called The Future History of Time in Data Models. The short version of that story is that if you aim for “Complete Consistence for Temporal Extensions”, you need to work on the […]
Data Modeling in an Agile World
Data Modeling creates a model for storing and processing data that works in a predictable, consistent manner. It includes the visual presentation of data structures, while enforcing business rules and government policies. A data model focuses on the needed data and its organization, rather than the operations performed on the data. Data Modeling is done […]
Rockset Releases Industry’s First Real-Time SQL for Amazon DynamoDB
According to a new press release, “Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company, today announced the availability of real-time SQL on NoSQL data from Amazon DynamoDB — a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB as their key-value and document database […]
The Future History of Time in Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Timely Concerns in Data Models In June I published a blog post called Timely Concerns in Data Models. In summary the concerns that I mentioned in June were: Roles of time (such as Valid Time, Recorded Time, As-Is vs. As-Of, Read timelines, Time Series), The scope of […]