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 ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Even though MongoDB and Cassandra keep winning converts, enterprises are keeping their RDBMSes around, and will do so for quite some time. NoSQL promised to upend the database market as big data ...

Last issue I talked about Thor Technologies, its new round of funding and its “best of breed” solutions. But what the Thor folks really wanted to talk about was the use of SQL-based relational ...

Since that time, SQL has become the dominant language for relational database systems. In recent years, frameworks and architectures have arrived on the programming scene that attempt to hide (or ...

Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an interface between an end user and a database and is designed to allow users to create databases as well as store, manipulate and manage data in an ...

The data explosion demands new solutions, yet the hoary old RDBMS still rules. Here's where you really shouldn't use it I am a NoSQLer and a big data guy. That’s a nice coincidence, because as you may ...