One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In ...

Application resources are easier to scale Now, before I get a lot of database engineers hounding me on Twitter saying, “That’s exactly what those features are for!” — or a lot of ...

In a fixed schema database, all of the data in the database must conform to the current version of the schema. However, in MongoDB, a collection may include documents that are structured differently, ...

A proper database design cannot be thrown together quickly by novices. A practiced and formal approach to gathering data requirements and modeling data is mandatory. This modeling effort requires a ...

Platform engineering is about making developers’ lives easier. Automating the steps needed to create and maintain infrastructure keeps your developers focused on building software, not keeping the ...

Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a platform-independent database language. Whenprogramming for DBMS independence, not all systems fully support the ANSI SQL standard.