Yesterday, Microsoft's Dave Campbell, a Technical Fellow on the SQL Server team, posted to the SQL Server team blog on the subject of in-memory database technology. Mary Jo Foley, our "All About ...

In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

A decade ago, most businesses and organizations typically used one database, and that was generally one of the big four relational database platforms: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server or PostgreSQL. In 2024, ...

It is funny how exotic computer technology eventually either fails or becomes commonplace. At one time, having more than one user on a computer at once was high tech, for example. Then there are ...

Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it. Improving ...

Commentary: MongoDB World 2022 kicks off this week, and it offers a glimpse into how much the industry has changed, and stayed the same, since the company’s first big event in 2014. This week is ...

Some pundits — and some technology vendors — assert that database management systems have become commodities and that DBMS innovation is either dead or irrelevant. They’re wrong. DBMSs haven’t stopped ...

Across database structures, dates are ubiquitous: sales date; order date; shipment date; receipt date; created date; last updated date. You might think that with such an abundant presence, dates would ...