Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

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 faster, you ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Introduce the concepts about relational models. Train students on how to convert a conceptual entity relationship model to a relational model. Introduce students with the reasons and process of ...

Need help choosing the best Python ORM for your projects? Here's what you need to know about SQLAlchemy, PonyORM, Django ORM, Peewee, SQLObject, and Tortoise ORM. When you want to work with a ...

Next-generation database companies are developing technologies to help businesses manage increasing volumes of data and increasingly complex data types. Not Your Father’s Relational Database The world ...

Inside a relational database management system, the princi­pal persisted data structure is considered a logical relation. Operations performed against that data within the RDBMS result in a logical ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. Left On Base The total amount of data created and replicated worldwide ...