Big Data, that is data which pushes the limits of conventional data management technology, is difficult or impossible to manage with relational databases. In fact, that’s pretty much the ...

As for new types of data, relational database products evolved to support unstructured data back in the 1990s, he said. In 2013, Oracle’s namesake database added support for JSON (JavaScript ...

Quite a good idea for big data. In relational databases you define your schema BEFORE you add your data. So a database with name, address, phone number etc. has those core defined schemas shapes.

NoSQL database technologies (key/value, wide column, document store, and graph) are currently very common in big data and analytics projects. But these products are not designed to be wholesale ...

The relational database remains the best model for the widest variety of workloads and I expect it to remain dominant for CRM, ERP, and data warehousing applications. Its ability to maintain relevance ...

Why Relational Databases Don’t Handle Big Data Well. By. Chris Preimesberger - October 26, 2015. Share. Facebook. Twitter. Linkedin. eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. Left On Base The total amount of data created and replicated ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

Big data may mean some large headaches for established relational database players looking to preserve chunky profit margins. Related: Yahoo, Benchmark Capital launching independent company for ...

As for new types of data, relational database products evolved to support unstructured data back in the 1990s, he said. In 2013, Oracle’s namesake database added support for JSON (JavaScript ...

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.