In a new book, titled Next Generation Databases: NoSQL, NewSQL and Big Data, Guy Harrison explores and contrasts both new and established database technologies. Harrison, who leads the team at Dell ...

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Big data has unceremoniously ended the era of the “all-purpose database.” The days of sticking uniform data into a single database and running all your business applications off it are gone. Business ...

There’s no lack of database choices when it comes to building your next big data analytics platform. Relational data stores, column-oriented databases, in-memory data grids, graph databases, scale-out ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. These new databases don’t use the tables, fields and rows found in relational databases, ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...

If Star Trek: The Next Generation were to return to TV in the 21st century, Lt. Commander Data’s nickname would be “Big.” “Big Data,” after all, is the biggest buzzword of the new millennium. It’s ...

Startup Quander aims to help brands "deliver a memorable, measurable, multi-sensory brand experience". It uses interactive technology to enhance the customer experience, while capturing the data that ...

HMRC said in response to a Freedom of Information request that the average additional annual yield achieved by its Connect ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. Left On Base The total amount of data created and replicated worldwide ...