Among purpose-built databases that have breached DB-Engines’ top 10 rankings to join Oracle, Microsoft and IBM in popularity, are MongoDB (#5), which began life as a document-oriented database; ...

Purpose-built databases enable you to create scalable, high-performing, and functional backend infrastructures to power your applications, addressing each use case with the most appropriate component.

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 ...

The constant stream of IoT data must be collected, measured, and acted upon in real time. General-purpose databases can’t handle all of that, but the InfluxData Platform can.

As modern applications continue to grow in size and complexity, the traditional approach of using a single, general-purpose database is quickly becoming obsolete. Real-time search, transactional ...

General-purpose databases allow you to combine multiple capabilities (vector search, full-text search, filtering on other data) within the same query.

Bergson-Michelson said school library databases are vital for students trying to learn about the world and to gain the data-processing skills they will need to make their way in the information ...

Building a Database on S3 There has been a great deal of hype about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 provides infinite scalability and high availability at low cost.

SingleStore is advancing its namesake database platform with a new release today that expands functionality for generative AI workloads, as well as both transactional and analytics data workloads ...