The PR rep said, “The heyday of the 30-year-old relational database is over, and Oracle has missed the shift to next-generational database technology needed to meet today’s big data challenges ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

“All the RDBMS players already extend themselves beyond traditional relational-model databases to support different unstructured data and columnar formats,” said Soumendra Mohanty, executive VP and ...

Oh, sure, NoSQL is having an impact on the $46 billion database market–still just 3% of the market, but growing at a rapid pace even as more traditional relational databases inch up by 5.4% ...

A new semantic-based graph data model has emerged within the enterprise. This data model has all of the advantages of the relational data model, but goes even further in providing for more ...

Relational Databases. Relational databases became the database of choice across business and industry in the 1980s. This database approach is based on work done by Dr. E. F. Codd at IBM in the late ...

Reports of the death of the relational database have been greatly exaggerated – at least in the enterprise. According to a new study from Progress Software – the company’s latest annual data ...

Manage data consistency: Understand how the consistency model of your chosen NoSQL database affects your application, especially if you are transitioning from an ACID-compliant RDBMS. Choose the ...

That allows your Java programs to connect to the database. Once you’ve created the schema, you can then create database tables, add columns and rows, insert data and perform CRUD operations. Your ...