Over the years I’ve been writing about identity services it’s always been taken as a given that the data store for identity information is a directory system (such as eDirectory, Active Directory, ...

Relational databases have been a powerful legacy technology over the last few decades, and a venerable one at that. From their inception by forward-thinking technologists in the '70's, relational ...

Visual DB today announced a new partnership with SQLite, the embedded relational database engine used in billions of devices ...

Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the ...

Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted ...

Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

Are vendor claims that big data, IoT and NoSQL killed RDBMS credible? Nothing is that simple in the enterprise data center. I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd’s paper, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks“, published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970. His colleagues at IBM, Donald ...