Today’s applications—including enterprise applica­tions—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless ...

Relational databases and the software that access them can be invaluable tools to businesses. Popular relational database management systems include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, as well as ...

Think about the promise of what AI is able to accomplish in terms of helping with software production and systems operation. Part of the business appeal of realigning operations with AI has to do with ...

In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the new “avant-garde” of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts of ...

This paper discusses the advantages of plant-wide historians over RDBs for data collection and time-series data optimization to enable true process visibility. There are critical capabilities that ...

Up through the first decade of the 21st century, the world of relational databases wasn’t a particularly exciting one. From their arrival in the 1970s, relational databases mostly supported rather ...

Polyglot persistence is becoming the norm in big data. Gone are the days when relational databases were the one store to rule them all; now the notion of using stores with data models that best align ...

Sensor data and IoT applications have special requirements that might be better served by a specialized database. Here’s what to consider. The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, ...

MongoDB is disrupting the market with its document (NoSQL) database. This type of database is more flexible and scalable than traditional relational (SQL) databases. MongoDB's database allows ...