Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

NoSQL keeps rising, but relational databases still dominate big data Your email has been sent NoSQL promised to upend the database market as big data forced a sea change in how we think about and ...

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Reports of the death of the relational database have been greatly exaggerated – at least in the enterprise. According to a new study from Progress Software – the company’s latest annual data ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Vitess-powered PlanetScale scales to hold as much data as you need, but is currently limited to a single cluster. PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform powered by Vitess, ...

There may not be as much structured data in the world as there is unstructured data, but one could easily argue that the structured data – mostly purchasing transactions and other kinds of historical ...

It’s not exactly clear where we are in the Gartner Hype Cycle with respect to so-called “NoSQL” databases. We’ve definitely been through the Trough of Disillusionment, but are we in the Slope of ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost, though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch. The new 2019 Database Trends ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...