Morgan Stanley recently predicted there will be 75 billion connected devices in use worldwide by 2020, a number rapidly approaching the estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain. We know that ...

Just as it's hard to imagine any small business existing today without a veritable fleet of personal computers, it's almost as hard to imagine any small business not maintaining some kind of database.

Companies have used software as a service for years, and many are also doing more development and testing on cloud platforms. But the next wave of competitive advantage could fall to those companies ...

A major challenge the Defense Department and intelligence community face is managing the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data they possess. Many contractors like MarkLogic are helping ...

One of the great things about the IT industry is that there’s no shortage of innovative companies coming up with a wide range of products to address niche problems. Today’s article covers a compendium ...

Rose Dixon, development operations deputy at the Semper Fi Fund and a longtime database manager, shared with The Chronicle three charts she created when faced with databases that needed an overhaul.

Picture this: The year is 2030, and you’re living in a world where retailers can predict consumer behavior with uncanny accuracy, healthcare providers are diagnosing diseases before symptoms escalate ...

The market is saturated with thousands of purpose-built database systems. This creates too much noise for analysts and scientists dealing with vital data problems across numerous important application ...

It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The co-founders of the open-source startup YugaByte have been working in the database business since the early 1990s. Now, the team is working on ...