If there’s one central theme to my blog DBMS2, it’s that modern DBMS alternatives should in many cases be used instead of the traditional market leaders. So it was only a matter of time before ...

Non-relational cloud databases such as Google's BigTable, Amazon's SimpleDB and Microsoft's SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) have emerged. But while these new data stores may well fill a niche in cloud ...

The landscape for database management systems is changing more rapidly these days than it has since the earliest days of the relational DBMS. Not only do we have an onslaught of NoSQL database systems ...

Transactional database management systems (DBMS) such as IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server have a long and glorious history reaching back to the rule of the mainframe computing paradigm with one server ...

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 ...

In an industrial control system, integration of an IMDS within a controller supports a ‘flattened’ control system architecture in which data is stored and processed, and some control decisions occur, ...

Most of today’s mid-career engineers remember when the idea of including a database management system (DBMS) within electronics’ embedded software was considered laughable. DBMSs’ hardware demands ...