I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

Looker, provider of a BI platform, has added support for Presto and Spark SQL as well as updates to its support for Impala and Hive. Looker allows enterprises to describe, define and analyze the data ...

In modern manufacturing, data has become just as critical as raw materials and skilled labor. From machine sensors and production lines to supply chain and qual ...

Microsoft introduced a new service into its "intelligent edge" portfolio at the recent Build conference. Here's how Azure SQL Database Edge will fit into the company's broader vision for a more ...

Databases were traditionally highly specialized data stores that were designed for specific tasks and until recently, they've been getting even more specialized. Recall data warehouses? Somebody once ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Aerospike is a real-time data platform company. In an era when real-time data streaming companies are fond of ...

Neo4j is both the original graph database and the continued leader in the graph database market. Designed to store entities and relationships, and optimized to perform graph operations such as ...

NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. At VoltDB, we’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if ...

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 ...