Sometimes a good argument brings its own rewards. Such was the case with database management vendor Severalnines, who sent me a sharply-worded pitch about a database-as-commodity debate I started with ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. “We’re in constant dialogue with our ...

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

In today’s digital economy, leading companies like Best Buy Canada, Nike, Staples, and Walmart are turning to NoSQL databases for better performance, availability, flexibility, and agility at lower ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

Ever since Linux became a viable server operating system, organizations have been looking to all kinds of open source software (OSS) to save on license and maintenance costs and to enjoy the benefits ...