Articles about Database Software

The Elvis Presley View on the State of Big Data

Big Data is currently the talk of the town, and for good reason. McKinsey & Company best quantified everyone’s excitement in a report earlier this year noting that, for example, the U.S. health care system could realize $300 billion in potential annual value by leveraging data more effectively. Continue Reading »

Oracle Ships NoSQL Database

New database platform is based on a key-value data model that linearly scales. Continue Reading »

Microsoft Teams with HP on Database Consolidation

New appliance is one of first benefits of joint-engineering effort. Continue Reading »

Stop Buying Database Licenses

Any organization that has deployed a business application has experienced the joy of procuring database licenses. Continue Reading »

Making the Database Smarter

There’s no question that the amount of data that needs to be managed is spiraling out of control, which is starting to put a lot pressure on the underlying databases used to manage all this information. Continue Reading »

EnterpriseDB Rolls out PostgreSQL Tools

New launch gives DBAs migrating away from Oracle a set of robust management tools. Continue Reading »

Kognitio Gives OLAP a Parallel Boost

Pablo platform allows existing OLAP applications to run in parallel. Continue Reading »

From Dream to Reality: A Single Enterprise Archive Solution for Big Data Retention

Last year, Gartner published a report titled, “Enterprise Information Archiving Transforms the Strategy and Approach for Archiving." It forecast that enterprise information archiving (EIA) will become a key infrastructure component and will hold both structured data and unstructured content by 2013. Continue Reading »

Software Testing Moves Higher up the IT Agenda

Study finds that companies across the board are putting more emphasis on software quality assurance. Continue Reading »

Hadoop Gets a Boost from Cassandra

While there is a lot of interest in the Apache Hadoop framework because of its promise to cost effectively work with massive amounts of data, there’s also a lot of frustration with the overall performance of Hadoop on industry standard servers. Continue Reading »

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