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Even new database technology has roots Another point is that the roots of today’s non-relational or NoSQL databases can be found in earlier technology.

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

Another problem is that current SQL database systems permit the creation of tables that can contain duplicate rows. The relational model is based on set theory, and a set cannot contain duplicate ...

This year is an expansive one for the database ecosystems that have evolved around the major platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud ...

At my last job I worked on a monolith that sat on top of a NoSQL database. Our DAOs were fairly simple beasts that did mostly CRUD operations and some non-trivial finds. For the vast majority of ...

23 April 2003 Dr Edgar ‘Ted’ Codd, the inventor of relational database whose ideas inspired IBM’s core database product DB2 and provided the basis for the Oracle software empire, has died of heart ...

Mark Porter, a veteran of AWS and Oracle, replaces Eliot Horowitz as MongoDB’s CTO. Could he take the document database maker in a new direction?