Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query ...

How Excel makes a relational database Relational databases—databases structured to recognize relations among the information stored in them—are essential for working with large amounts of ...

What does relational database actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

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 ...

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links to subordinates called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables.

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

Applications that use the Jakarta Persistence API shouldn’t embed too much raw SQL in their code. However, when you need an SQL query for performance reasons or to access the database in a way that ...

Mark Porter, a veteran of AWS and Oracle, replaces Eliot Horowitz as MongoDB’s CTO. Could he take the document database maker in a new direction?