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 ...

I’m at the Cloud Connect 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., one of the first major gatherings of the year on cloud computing. One of the larger topics that has come up thus far is not using ...

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Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

Snowflake Inc. has acquired Datometry Inc., a startup that developed software for porting workloads between databases. The ...

Data estates are expansive. Organizations in all business verticals are operating data stacks that run on a mixture of legacy technologies that work effectively but aren’t always easy to move or ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Fifty years ago, relational databases were neither ubiquitous nor standardized.

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 ...