Database admins strive to ensure that large chunks of data are both accessible and stored with integrity. By using these programming languages, they can keep systems optimized. As data volumes ...

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool. At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a "NoSQL" database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens of vendors are rushing to fill. On one side are desktop applications, on the other are Web applications. In between are rich ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for exchanging corporate data via structured documents--whether internally, with business partners, or via public ...