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 ...

As more organizations embrace big data and analytics to gain insight from extremely large datasets, the tools and systems used to manage data have grown, changed, and mul­tiplied. Instead of just ...

The two main types of data are structured and unstructured. Structured data is typically alphanumeric, easy to categorize based on shared traits of data points and suitable to store in a predefined ...

Elastic has released version 1.0 of its Elastic Common Schema (ECS) specification. Initially announced in February, ECS is an open-source specification that “provides a consistent and customizable way ...

This year is an expansive one for the database ecosystems that have evolved around the major platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud ...