It is funny how exotic computer technology eventually either fails or becomes commonplace. At one time, having more than one user on a computer at once was high tech, for example. Then there are ...

A decade ago, most businesses and organizations typically used one database, and that was generally one of the big four relational database platforms: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server or PostgreSQL. In 2024, ...

This week is MongoDB World 2022, and for those of us who were around for MongoDB 2014 (like me), it’s fair to say that much has changed over the past eight years for the company and industry. While ...

When was the last time you ran across a single-vendor data shop? With the proliferation of multiple database engines for multiple purposes, enterprises now take advantage of a range of database ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When Snowflake announced its $250 million acquisition of Crunchy Data two weeks ago at its ...

Readers of this column sometimes ask me questions about databases and database administration, which I welcome. And at times I will take the opportunity to answer particularly intriguing questions in ...

You've carefully crafted a concurrent application taking advantage of all the latest and greatest language features. It scales magnificently and it's the jewel of the cloud. But what about the ...

A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have been ...

Where in-memory databases are used (spoiler: everywhere!). Suitability of in-memory databases for microcontrollers. Risks and mitigation of data loss. How an in-memory database is different than ...

The development team throws a party when it delivers a new database-oriented application to the business community. But the network exec, like Cinderella, can’t go to the party. All too often, the ...