MemSQL announced that its distributed in-memory database can now provide JSON analytics, to deliver a consolidated view of structured and semi-structured data, including standard enterprise and social ...

‘Big data’ is a term that is appearing with increasing frequency. It is often used to mean large volumes of structured data (such as your customer list) but also to describe semi-structured data ...

Data can be classified as structured, semi-structured or unstructured – but what bearing do these classifications have on a company’s data-handling strategy? The short answer is that it is becoming ...

Data Access Shouldnʼt Require a Translator In most enterprises, data access still feels like a locked room with SQL as the ...

Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data. In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on ...

In the world of database technology, there are two main types of databases: SQL and NoSQL—or, relational databases and non-relational databases. The difference speaks to how they’re built, the type of ...