Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Graph databases explicitly express the connections between nodes, and are more efficient at the analysis of networks (computer, human, geographic, or otherwise) than relational databases. There has ...

Building a dependable database management system is no easy task. You need to understand what the design trade-offs in the construction of a database management system are and also how those ...

Most enterprise software has a contingent of zealots, people so steeped in the technology that they are convinced it is the be-all and end-all, or those who have taken so many certification exams that ...

In 2012, digital subscriptions at the Financial Times surpassed those of print for the first time. The transition to a digital-first approach that followed allowed the newspaper’s IT team to provide ...

Graph databases have proved their worth with the technology being used to analyse the Panama Papers. The recent data leak from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca has captured the imaginations of ...