From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant.

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Many cloud-based parallel relational systems have a greatly reduced efficiency for specific database mutation (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) operations, which can cause a problem in certain use cases.

As the name suggests, a network database management system can make connections between different types of data and is mostly used on large digital computers. However, it has ... (SQL). To access ...

Microsoft SQL Server. This is an industry-standard database management system that began in 1989 with the Microsoft SQL Server 1.0, a 16-bit server for the IBM OS/2 operating system.

The Informix database server uses a Virtual-Table Interface, a DataBlade API, access-method-specific SQL extensions and API libraries to facilitate the development of user-defined access methods.

1. MySQL. One of the most useful database management tools is MySQL. MySQL is used by top companies like Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, PayPal and Twitter, just to name a few.

Between January 2011 and March 2012, Global Payment Systems was the victim of SQL injection attacks that resulted in malware being placed on its payment processing system, the theft of more than ...

The landscape for database management systems is changing more rapidly these days than it has since the earliest days of the relational DBMS. Not only do we have an onslaught of NoSQL database systems ...