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 ...

Of any enterprise technology, enterprises are most dedicated to their chosen database. Once data goes into a particular database, CIOs hate to take it out. It's costly, and the risks often ...

The company has limited presence in the niche NoSQL database market. The gargantuan rise in global unstructured data in recent times has pushed companies into adopting niche technologies such as ...

Relational databases are well-suited to conventional data analysis such as reporting and classical statistical analysis (what you learned in the college Statistics 101 class, for example).

NoSQL database adoption can be seen as taking place in three overlapping phases, he said. "Phase one started in 2008-ish, when you first started to see commercial NoSQL products being available.

With NoSQL, data can be stored in a schema-less or free-form fashion. Any data can be stored in any record. Among the NoSQL databases, you will find four common models for storing data, which lead ...

But these days there isn’t exactly much rigor in terms of defining exactly what a NoSQL database system is, or what it must be able to do. And many in the field are redefining NoSQL as NOSQL, where ...

Though NoSQL originally developed as a flexible and agile alternative to relational database systems, non-relational databases haven’t yet gained wide acceptability in the large enterprise segment.