Amazon.com Inc. today announced the release of a massive new dataset, appropriately called “MASSIVE,” which it says can be used to build virtual assistants that support some of the world’s most ...

Too often, organizations lack this understanding because their data is siloed, unavailable, or indecipherable to key decision makers. Quite simply, they lack the necessary tools and processes required ...

Semantic reasoning tools for databases aim to close that gap. They introduce an abstraction layer that understands business ...

The enterprise has been sitting on a goldmine of valuable information for several decades now, but only recently has it had access to the technology to pull it all together and make sense of it. This ...

Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a storage repository that holds an enormous amount of raw or ...

In the world of tech and innovation, there's a perception that new and disruptive technologies originate solely from a select group of tech elites in Silicon Valley. While this is an obvious ...

Many people claim to understand the basics of good data and database hygiene. Often, these same people claim it is all very simple and very obvious. However, when peering into existing code and ...

An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities. The most ...