This is an excerpt from The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success, and Growth by John J. Huber and Steven V. Potter (ALA Editions, 2015). “The most meaningful way to ...

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; ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Penfield High School, a leading educational institution in Ghana has inaugurated a multi-purpose state of the art library. At a short but impressive ceremony held at the school's campus in Oyarifa ...