The relational database so dominates the thinking of information technology and business professionals that its presumed suitability for essentially all data management tasks is rarely questioned. But ...

Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

Database technologies are rapidly evolving to a degree where it can be difficult to keep up with the newest solutions and buzzwords, let alone distinguish one from another. Looking for the right ...

NoSQL stands for "Not only SQL". The idea of naming a principle with a negative contingency seems curious, as if to demonstrate that a limitation has been overcome. Follow the guide... SQL (Structured ...

Vol. 29, No. 1, Special Issue: Relational reasoning in STEM domains: What empirical research can contribute to the global dialogue (March 2017), pp. 55-72 (18 pages) We propose that research on ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...