Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others. The service takes ...

'We have over 200,000 certified individuals across the globe now, and that number is growing rapidly,' says Maureen Lonergan, AWS' director of worldwide training and certification, citing a newly ...

It’s not exactly clear where we are in the Gartner Hype Cycle with respect to so-called “NoSQL” databases. We’ve definitely been through the Trough of Disillusionment, but are we in the Slope of ...

Though NoSQL originally developed as a flexible and agile alternative to relational database systems, non-relational databases haven’t yet gained wide acceptability in the large enterprise segment.

For Amazon Web Services (AWS), the key to their data management strategy was that you need the right tool for the job. And so, AWS has amassed a portfolio of 15 databases, and over the past few years, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc., has just taken a shot at rival Oracle Corp., with the release of a new, cloud-based relational database service that it claims will deliver better performance at a fraction ...

In a bid to strengthen its cloud space presence, Amazon 's AMZN cloud computing arm is focusing on database services availability. This is evident from Amazon Web Services' ("AWS") latest introduction ...

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