The RDBMS provides transactional safeguards and data management amenities that NoSQL database systems do not now provide -- and probably won't provide for quite some time.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 17, 2016
Read IoT security advice offered by an open source foundation and by technology executives, plus how to determine whether you should be in the cloud.
- By Quint Turner
- May 16, 2016
Datawatch's Monarch 13.3 release adds new analytical functions and algorithms. It also bundles new automated data loading capabilities, along with an Angoss export function.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 16, 2016
Cloud BI player Birst says that it's the biggest name in network BI. Network BI isn't a recognized category, but Birst's vision of it gets at a real and pressing problem.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 13, 2016
Graph database technology gives us a way to clarify the connections between and among data points, facts, analytics, and other synthetic objects. As more enterprises intend to relate data across disparate data models, interest in graphing technology should rise.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 13, 2016
We IT professionals are in danger of losing our history if we don't make the effort to remember the contributions of those who went before us.
- By Bill Inmon
- May 12, 2016
There's still a teeming market for best-of-breed data-source and application connectivity software. Business intelligence (BI) and analytics use cases, which emphasize ODBC and JDBC, are as hot as ever -- but so are RESTful APIs.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 11, 2016
Big data engineer will be among the hottest jobs in 2016, with starting salary growth of almost 9 percent. Wait, what's a big data engineer?
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 10, 2016