There is no such thing as the relational model for databases anymore than there is just one geometry. In the 19th century, Bolyai, Gauss, and Lobachevski all realized that the parallel postulate of ...

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, ...

Are vendor claims that big data, IoT and NoSQL killed RDBMS credible? Nothing is that simple in the enterprise data center. I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a ...

NoSQL entered the scene nearly six years ago as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The offerings from the major relational vendors couldn’t cut it in terms of the cost, scalability, ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

A well-designed data model is the cornerstone of effective operational systems and BI and analytics applications that deliver business value by transforming enterprise data into a useful information ...

The information below serves as a brief primer to help you better understand the database terms you’ll most often encounter. Relational Databases. Relational databases became the database of choice ...

This book contains significant results from our research on industrial automation software conducted in previous years. Industrial automation software can be used in a wide variety of industrial ...

A multimodel database is a data processing platform that supports multiple data models, which define the parameters for how the information in a database is organized and arranged. Being able to ...