SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

As research projects head toward fruition, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle get set to square off in the market for database integration software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Fifty years ago, relational databases were neither ubiquitous nor standardized.

I met with Charles Silver, the CEO of Algebraix Data, a startup based in San Diego. He was telling me about his company's approach to querying large databases, very quickly, and with no need for prior ...

A question asked about data contained in two or more tables in a relational database. The relational query must specify the tables required and what the condition is that links them; for example, ...

GraphQL may end up having as much impact as SQL did, by simplifying the process of querying any data system. GraphQL, an emerging standard for querying multiple types of data systems, is shifting the ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

The W3C grants Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to ...

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The information below serves as a brief primer to help you better understand the database terms you’ll most often encounter. Relational Databases. Relational databases became the database of choice ...