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 ...

Creating a viable challenger to database giants Oracle and IBM is one of the hardest business problems I have seen. After 18 years, Emil Eifrem looks poised to succeed. His company, San Mateo, ...

Relational databases have dominated data management for decades, but they’ve recently lost ground to NoSQL alternatives. While NoSQL data stores aren’t right for every use case, they are generally ...

Over the past decade, we’ve seen a wave of diversification followed by consolidation in database technologies. Rela­tional databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server com­pletely dominated ...