At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

It wasn’t very long ago that if I wanted to start a new enterprise software company, a new fintech payments service or a new cloud payroll service, I’d have selected a relational database management ...

Matt Kimball, vice president and principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, told VentureBeat the data layer is where ...

Have you noticed that relational "technology" seems to be taking a beating these days? With new “data models” and types of database systems purported to be better than relational, it seems that the ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

NoSQL entered the scene nearly six years ago as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The offerings from the major relational vendors couldn’t cut it in terms of the cost, scalability, ...

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...

Relational event models (REMs) have emerged as a pivotal statistical framework for the analysis of time‐stamped interactions within social networks. By treating interactions as discrete events in ...