The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

Cloud storage is increasingly becoming a fundamental part of any modern organization's IT infrastructure. With growing data volumes and distributed operational models, businesses are looking to the ...

It is important to understand that databases are an extension of your storage and requires a holistic view when designing and managing solutions that use the database. This tip from Leighton Nelson ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.

An open source database is just a regular database that’s distributed with its source code. Users can read, revise, and extend the software freely, although few use these opportunities. The most ...

Introduction Data has become one of the most valuable resources in the digital age. Every day, organizations generate ...

When you eliminate the dependency on local storage, the database becomes an active, real-time engine, not just a place to store data. In 2021, I was developing software for an aerospace manufacturer ...