The term relational database is almost superfluous these days. After all, every major commercial database product—Oracle, Sybase, DB2—is based on the same underlying relational model. There are many ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s Top ...

perspectives The relational database so dominates the thinking of information technology and business professionals that its presumed suitability for essentially all data management tasks is rarely ...

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Neon, a startup that’s building a serverless open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, today announced that it raised around $46 million in a new funding round, about $30 million of which came ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Database Management System (DBMS) software acts as an interface between an end user and a database and is designed to allow users to create databases as well as store, manipulate and manage data in an ...