I’m at the Cloud Connect 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., one of the first major gatherings of the year on cloud computing. One of the larger topics that has come up thus far is not using ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The accelerating adoption of microservices-based applications running on multiple clouds has resulted in a surging demand for distributed SQL databases. For the ...

Actian is describing the newly announced Hadoop Edition of its analytics software as the first platform with full SQL support designed to run entirely natively on the distributed big-data framework.

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Even the briefest examination of databases can cause your head to spin if you’re not up to speed on the different kinds of databases and how they operate. The information below serves as a brief ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...