Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

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Start coding a new database in your garage with a buddy of yours. Use JavaScript. Name it after your dog. Patent your own data model. Do not go open source. Take over the world. That is HarperDB's ...

Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

NoSQL database vendor Couchbase has developed a SQL query language that will help developers with SQL expertise -- and there are millions of them -- build enterprise web, mobile and Internet-of-Things ...

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Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

Heterogeneous database management system from Quest Software supports dozens of relational, NoSQL, and data warehouse sources, both on-prem and cloud-based. Systems management and security software ...

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In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...