Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical ...

I am predicting that the fall of the relational database will indeed happen and furthermore, I am predicting that history will not point to any one single event as the trigger.

The History Of OLTP Relational Databases Organizations have long utilized relational database management systems (RDBMS) optimized for OLTP to manage their data. The concept of an OLTP database ...

Commentary: It's no longer exciting to talk about the rise of non-relational databases, but it's happening all the same.

With these key optimizations, your favorite relational database can support the high connection volumes and high-speed ingestion rates of IoT workloads ...

Databases–those workhorses of data management–have come a long way over the past 10 years. Users no longer must accept the tradeoffs that were commonplace in 2013, and the array of features and ...

Early in the history of relational databases every vendor promoted a different transaction processing performance benchmark that had been tweaked for its own product.

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 ...

With new 'data models' and types of database systems purported to be better than relational, it seems that the industry is all too ready to stick a fork in relational. So, is relational technology ...

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database, and according to a 2022 survey , it is the second most used database after MySQL. PostgreSQL expert engineer Craig Carstiens explains the history ...