Of course, from the current vantage point of 2009 – still some years away, I suspect, from the collapse of the relational database hegemony – it is difficult to predict how history will be ...

For example, a document-centric database works well for storing comments to a blog post or a customer’s entire order history and profile. Relational database developers shun the document-centric ...

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 ...

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

While OLTP databases have traditionally been SQL relational databases, it’s also possible to use some NoSQL databases for the same purposes. Most of our discussion below will be in terms of SQL ...

It is also important to remember that many of the NoSQL offerings are relatively immature, especially when compared to the 40-year history of relational/SQL database systems. Businesses whose ...

From their arrival in the 1970s, relational databases mostly supported rather boring if important back office applications with a handful of users and relatively small amounts of data.