Dynamic filtering is a technique that filters out unnecessary data in advance during the database query process. The core ...

Want to know how disruptive so-called big data efforts can be to traditional database companies? Try replicating YouTube on Oracle hardware and software.

If you were designing a new database that supported today's transactional applications, but could deal with the huge, rapidly changing world of big data, what other features would be considered ...

The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

In a new book, titled Next Generation Databases: NoSQL, NewSQL and Big Data, Guy Harrison explores and contrasts both new and established database technologies. Harrison, who leads the team at Dell ...

Relational data stores, column-oriented databases, in-memory data grids, graph databases, scale-out NewSQL systems, and Hadoop will all get time in the sun. But according to database pioneer Mike ...

Even with all the hype around NoSQL, traditional relational databases still make sense for enterprise applications. Here are four reasons why.

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database ...

Quite a good idea for big data In relational databases you define your schema BEFORE you add your data. So a database with name, address, phone number etc. has those core defined schemas shapes.

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.

Big Data is supposed to be a scientific bonanza, but it challenges the capabilities of computer science, statistical tests and perhaps calls for revamping the scientific method itself.