Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

The cloud is outpacing on-premises for databases and Amazon Aurora is a leading cloud-native, MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database service. This IDC report explores the value and ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

Commentary: It’s no longer exciting to talk about the rise of non-relational databases, but it’s happening all the same. It’s not exactly clear where we are in the Gartner Hype Cycle with respect to ...