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Inside a relational database management system, the princi­pal persisted data structure is considered a logical relation. Operations performed against that data within the RDBMS result in a logical ...
FoundationDB has announced general availability for SQL Layer, a SQL database engine powered by the FoundationDB key-value store. The thinking is this, explained Dave Rosenthal, CEO of FoundationDB: ...
In “The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 1 of 3)” I covered some background on the SQL language and relational databases, the current and future for relational databases, the rise of ...
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a transactional and consistent key-value store that can withstand datacenter failures Until very recently, when you shopped for a database you ...
Apple database arm FoundationDB on Monday announced the open source release of FoundationDB Record Layer, a relational database management technology that powers CloudKit. Explained in a post to the ...
Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison. There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL ...
Looker says it had been waiting for these engines to get fast enough to support its BI platform. And now they are. Last May, Apache Hive 1.2 was released. It included support for SQL Union (Union ...