The Hibernate API then lets developers decorate their Java code with minimally obtrusive JPA annotations. Said annotations describe how a given Java class and its variables map to a given table and ...

Unit-testing should have as few barriers as possible. For relational databases those barriers range from external dependencies to speed to keeping the relational schema synchronized with your object ...

Looking back on 2011, I'm struck by two larger trends in the overall database marketplace. First, most energy and excitement (but not much forward motion) seems to be coming from the NoSQL space. And ...