The era of the one-size-fits-all database has been over for some time. IT shops realized years ago that not all the data their organizations needed to store, process and present to end users neatly ...

Data models are used to represent real-world entities, but they often have limitations. Avoid these common data modeling mistakes to keep data integrity. Data modeling is the process through which we ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

NoSQL entered the scene nearly six years ago as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The offerings from the major relational vendors couldn’t cut it in terms of the cost, scalability, ...

With the growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

Data has always been at the heart of every program, and even more so these days as data feeds machine learning and large language models, but connecting to those databases has been a constant struggle ...

A relational database is a type of database that organizes data points with defined relationships for easy access. In the relational database model, the data structures-- data tables, indexes and ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. In open source, we trust community – and as such, we might reasonably trust benchmarking studies that have been ...