Extensible Markup Language (XML) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for exchanging corporate data via structured documents--whether internally, with business partners, or via public ...

In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) ...

Data estates are expansive. Organizations in all business verticals are operating data stacks that run on a mixture of legacy technologies that work effectively but aren’t always easy to move or ...

Open-source database provider MariaDB Corp. is combining its transactional and analytical databases into a single unit and launching a managed service supporting public and hybrid cloud deployments.

Things are simply not the way your grandfather’s data warehouse and dependent data marts were anymore; they are now more layered and complex. With the rise of big data approaches and the new suite of ...

If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

MongoDB is finally getting support for multi-document ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions. That’s something the MongoDB community has been asking for for years and ...

A survey of 450 senior IT decision makers responsible for digital transformation initiatives has reported that legacy databases are holding back their projects, The research conducted by Vanson Bourne ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...