NoSQL databases, also referred to as non-relational, continue to grow in popularity both on-premises and in the cloud. Of the 395 different database management systems tracked by site DB-engines, more ...

Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an interface between an end user and a database and is designed to allow users to create databases as well as store, manipulate and manage data in an ...

The traditional approach to managing data for business intelligence applications is through the use of a relational database for analytics, perhaps as the foundation of a data warehouse system – ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) first introduced its relational database (the one that can be visualized in tables of rows and columns) in the late 1970s. While the Oracle database served user needs for decades, ...

In another sign that the NoSQL and the relational database worlds will end up playing well together, Ebay spoke last week revealing details of its data warehouse, which it says has one of the largest ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

One of the key inhibitors to using cloud infrastructures for applications that process thousands or even millions of transactions per second is the latency associated with those architectures. Storage ...