The structured limitations of relational databases don't support modern advancements as well as NoSQL databases. The simplicity of a NoSQL key-value store offers a flexible architecture to process ...

Database keys are essential components of a relational database management system. DBMS keys are used to specify identifying attributes in the rows of database tables so the data can be sorted and ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

When considering AI, remember that databases are unlike most systems because they hold the records the business depends on.