Big data technologies differ from traditional RDBMS in one basic and very important respect, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. RDBMS technology was vertically integrated, ...

The current driving force for many IT projects is big data and analytics. Organizations are looking to exploit the growing mountain of data by creating systems of insight that can help businesses to ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the database system space. Running The Bases By 2025 the total amount of digital data generated, gathered, ...

Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...

NoSQL keeps rising, but relational databases still dominate big data Your email has been sent NoSQL promised to upend the database market as big data forced a sea change in how we think about and ...

Seeking to help standardize and simplify Hadoop adoption, Pivotal made three key announcements. First, the company is open sourcing components of its Big Data Suite, including Pivotal HD, HAWQ, ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2018. We practitioners of the technological arts have a tendency to use specialized jargon. That's not unusual.