Relational databases hold up as the foundation of modern data management in no small part because of system maturity and the ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

As AI redefines what it means to be a database firm, MongoDB stock could get a boost from the software maker's ...

Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but you may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Conventional wisdom states that relational databases are not scalable or robust enough to handle the huge numbers of connections, the massive throughput, and all the cool tricks required to master IoT ...

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday launched a new relational database called Aurora that aims to provide proprietary performance at the cost of open source. Aurora, introduced by AWS Senior Vice ...