Companies that jumped in too soon, without the proper support, tended to wind up with what Graham calls “data swamps.” Data swamps, of course, are the opposite of what organizations intend when they ...

Organizations have made investments in 'small data' for years and many are achieving data governance, or at least understand the gap they need to fill. They know how to work with the relatively small ...

Bill Inmon, who’s widely known as the father of the data warehouse, shared a warning for data-loving organizations at the recent Data + AI Summit: If you don’t adopt the precepts of the data lake ...

1. The debate over SQL vs. NoSQL is over — both win. The debate over relational, or SQL, versus NoSQL database has raged for years. Most recently, NoSQL databases have taken the lead in modern ...

The vendor survey of more than 500 business users released on Tuesday (July 17) by visual analytics specialist Arcadia Data found that 72 percent use data lakes to gather business intelligence.

Data users know that the data they need lives in these swamps, but without a clear data governance strategy they won’t be able to find it, trust it or use it.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

Unlike SQL databases, many NoSQL databases can be scaled horizontally across hundreds or thousands of servers. ... for data storage. In-memory databases are faster than disk-optimized databases, ...

Imperva has agreed to buy Goldman Sachs-backed jSonar in a deal that will forge a data security powerhouse offering a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to protect modern data architectures.

Despite dampened hopes for data lakes, AKA "data swamps," businesses -- especially in healthcare -- can't return to locking carefully curated data under governance by a select few, according to Rich ...