The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

MongoDB is a document-oriented database that accelerates applications’ development timeframe. Compared with traditional SQL databases, MongoDB allows developers to store data in a more flexible format ...

One of the big-ticket items at the recent MongoDB 5.0 launch was the introduction of specialized “time-series” collections. Time-series databases (TSDBs) have long been a specialized niche in the ...

IBM plans to buy DataStax, the AI and data biz that supports and contributes to the open source Cassandra wide column database.… The intent post-acquisition is for DataStax to continue to work with ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...