Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Current enterprise data architectures include NoSQL databases co-existing with RDBMS. In this article, author discusses a solution for managing NoSQL & relational data using unified data modeling.

Oracle Database 21c is the result of four decades of development. Oracle Database was the first commercial SQL-based relational database (1979), implemented based on a published IBM specification.

As the number and variety of data sources continues to explode along with proliferation of third party APIs used to connect it, data repositories such as relational databases continue to thrive while ...

Even with all the hype around NoSQL, traditional relational databases still make sense for enterprise applications. Here are four reasons why.

The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

We are still waiting for the next-generation database virtualization product that scales as part of your Hadoop infrastructure and allows you to essentially query your RDBMS virtualized inside of ...

Relational database developers shun the document-centric approach because of its tendency to create redundant data that can introduce errors and complexity into application engineering.

The NoSQL meeting tried to raise the awareness towards the opportunity of using non-relational databases which promise to be cheaper, simpler to administer and maintain, and offering superior ...