For a long time, companies have been using relational databases (DB) to manage data. However, with the increasing use of ...

A computer scientist used only “pure SQL” to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game. The resulting first-person shooter game, ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

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 ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

The "pure SQL" part is important. There have been attempts to get Doom-like games up and running in the past. The excellent ...

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 ...

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 an ...

FEDERAL WAY, WA--(Marketwired - Oct 27, 2014) - McObject ® announced it has released eXtremeDB ® Financial Edition version 6.0, a major upgrade of its database system for capital markets applications ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...