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 ...

Built on a new architecture KumoRFM-2 achieves state-of-the-art results across 41 predictive tasks and four major benchmarks, ...

Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

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Enterprise technology vendors are racing to make AI work against the structured and relational data inside databases, data ...

For the first time in over 20 years, there appear to be cracks forming in the relational model’s dominance of the database management systems market. The relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

Most of the major relational database makers have added, or are adding, object extensions to their products, so they can handle user-defined and binary datatypes such as pictures, video, faxes, etc.

Imagine one huge, monolithic relational database—say, a MySQL or Oracle installation—squatting in the middle of an organization’s business like Jabba the Hut. The big blob is kind of comforting. Its ...