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Postgres has been on a roll lately. Despite a reputation for being the older, wiser fuddy-duddy of open-source relational databases, Postgres has been running circles around MySQL in terms of growth.

In the fourth episode of theCube’s special series on Accumulo, Sqrrl founding CTO Adam Fuchs discusses how his company’s platform helps enterprises organize their NoSQL environments. Fuchs opens the ...

For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title "database administrator" conjures up very specific images. We picture someone pulling hair out over issues ...

PlanetScale today took the wraps off its new database as a service based on Vitess, the horizontally distributed branch of MySQL that was developed at YouTube. Folks who have struggled with eventual ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Jun 01, 2015, 03:01pm EDT Jun 01, 2015, 03:07pm EDT This ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

If you’ve been working with databases at all, you know that NoSQL is the new hot topic. If, by ‘new’, you mean something that’s been around since the 70s. Jokes aside, NoSQL has largely filled a gap ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

Knowledge graphs are hyped. We can officially say this now, since Gartner included knowledge graphs in the 2018 hype cycle for emerging technologies. Though we did not have to wait for Gartner -- ...