Agile Database Development-5 Tips to Get You Started
Today, the majority of application developers are embracing the agile approach. Agile has thus become standard practice for many organizations. However, database developers, particularly those working on relational databases, have not readily adopted agile development methods, partly because they need ...
What Data Scientists Need to Know About SQL
If you're an aspiring data scientist or someone already working the field, you've probably heard about structured query language or SQL. People typically refer to it as "sequel" rather than by its full name or acronym. It's the database language ...
How to use Cassandra CQL in your Java Application
Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a SQL (Structured Query Language)-like language for querying Cassandra. Cassandra's data model is a partitioned row store with tunable consistency. Rows are organized into tables; the first component of a table's primary key is the ...
RDBMS dominate the database market, but NoSQL systems are catching up
Based on the popularity ranking, DB-Engines presents new statistics, which show that relational systems currently totally dominate the database market, but NoSQL systems have a strong upcoming trend.
Since we have already more than 200 different database systems in our ranking, ...
Planning for scale with Enterprise NoSQL
All applications have inherent limits in what they can support. As organizations grow, so do their expectations on the apps they use. Development and operations teams need to plan for large scale from day one — not react to it ...
PostgreSQL-The Other big open-source database has a new release
When you think about open-source database management systems (DBMS), you probably think about Oracle's MySQL and its great rival/fork MariaDB. That's thinking too small. There's another great, enterprise capable DBMS, PostgreSQL, and its latest, greatest release PostgreSQL 9.3, has just ...