Look inside one of Sun's current "Niagara" or "coolthreads" machines and what you'll see is an early market product reflecting a deep commitment to migrating what we naively think of as SMP ...

Prior to 2008, whatever your database question, the answer was always,“Oracle”—or sometimes, “MySQL” or, “SQL Server.” The relational database management system (RDBMS) model—really a triumvirate of ...

When it comes to capturing and analyzing data, IT departments have more choices today than ever before. And choice is a good thing. However, in order to pick the right tool for the job, you need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

Many people associate open source data framework Hadoop with managing truly massive amounts of data. And with good reason: Hadoop storage is used by Facebook and Yahoo, which many people (rightly) ...