The PR rep said, “The heyday of the 30-year-old relational database is over, and Oracle has missed the shift to next-generational database technology needed to meet today’s big data challenges ...

“All the RDBMS players already extend themselves beyond traditional relational-model databases to support different unstructured data and columnar formats,” said Soumendra Mohanty, executive VP and ...

Oh, sure, NoSQL is having an impact on the $46 billion database market–still just 3% of the market, but growing at a rapid pace even as more traditional relational databases inch up by 5.4% ...

A new semantic-based graph data model has emerged within the enterprise. This data model has all of the advantages of the relational data model, but goes even further in providing for more ...

The classical relational model has been the universal row-and-column structure for storing and processing data for decades. But with data volumes nearly doubling each year, the relational model is ...

Reports of the death of the relational database have been greatly exaggerated – at least in the enterprise. According to a new study from Progress Software – the company’s latest annual data ...

Splice Machine updated what it claims to be the first "Hadoop RDBMS," targeting enterprises using Oracle and MySQL relational database management systems. After announcing a beta release in May of ...

Manage data consistency: Understand how the consistency model of your chosen NoSQL database affects your application, especially if you are transitioning from an ACID-compliant RDBMS. Choose the ...

Crunchy Data gives companies the tools they need to build with Postgres, an open source and object-relational database management system that is popular with developers and works well with the SQL ...