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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But quite a few of you likely do not, so please do not skip over this. First of all, what is a database? DB2 is not a database; neither are Informix, Oracle and SQL Server. Each of these is a DBMS, or ...