There is a typical story cycle in IT: Every new technology destroys and replaces an older one. PCs displaced mini-computers. Smartphones unseated cameras and flip phones. Online streaming wipes out ...

MongoDB's document-based database structure is better suited for the demands of the AI and big data era, offering flexibility and scalability at a lower cost. The global database market is projected ...

Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the database system space. Running The Bases By 2025 the total amount of digital data generated, gathered, ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a "We don't need no stinking SQL" attitude to a "Can I please have some SQL with that?" philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

Christena Garduno is the CEO of Media Culture, a brand response agency specializing in media planning and buying for nearly 30 years. Big data is transforming the relationship between companies and ...

As the default database for Hadoop, you'd expect HBase to be more popular than it is, but its time may already have passed A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...