A decade ago, most businesses and organizations typically used one database, and that was generally one of the big four relational database platforms: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server or PostgreSQL. In 2024, ...

In today’s data-driven world, the exponential growth of unstructured data is a phenomenon that demands our attention. The rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has added even more ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

A new ecosystem of smaller companies is ushering in a “third wave” of AI-first database technology. New search engines and databases brilliantly answer queries posed in natural language, but their ...

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The amount of data and its complexity has been growing at a rapid clip and shows no sign of stopping. To contain this data, organizations have been introducing different types of database platforms ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led as president and CEO since September 2014. Ittycheria has taken MongoDB to the cloud, ...

The world used to get by on just a smattering of databases. You know, trusty relational workhorses like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Ingres, and IBM DB2. Soon enough, however, open source crashed the ...