Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...

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Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Next-generation database companies are developing technologies to help businesses manage increasing volumes of data and increasingly complex data types. Not Your Father’s Relational Database The world ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Actian is describing the newly announced Hadoop Edition of its analytics software as the first platform with full SQL support designed to run entirely natively on the distributed big-data framework.