Tag: database

April 12, 2024

In the contemporary landscape of data-driven decision-making, enterprises are increasingly turning to predictive analytics to gain valuable insights into future trends and behaviors. Predictive analytics involves extracting patterns from historical data to forecast future outcomes, enabling organizations to make proactive […]

March 13, 2024

A data dictionary describes data in business terms, including information about the data. It includes elements like data types, structure details, and security restrictions. Unlike business glossaries, which focus on data across the organization, data dictionaries support data architectures – […]

January 5, 2024

Looking back, then forward, is a traditional exercise by year-end. Which data concerns are important enough to worry about in 2024? Which of those do we stand a chance of doing something good for in 2024? Needless to say, money […]

December 12, 2023

In today’s fast-paced software industry, engineering organizations need objective measurements and analytical solutions to gauge their performance. Historically, engineering leaders have evaluated outcomes subjectively, lacking the data-driven insights required to drive success. This has hindered engineering leaders from making informed […]

November 16, 2023

Since its introduction to the marketplace in 2000, the consistency, availability, and partition theorem, or CAP theorem, has been a guiding principle in database management. Computer scientist Eric Brewer presented the CAP theorem in a talk about distributed systems that […]

October 12, 2023

Today’s applications—including enterprise applica­tions—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless of where they are located. Meeting these challenges doesn’t just mean happier users: […]

August 24, 2023

NoSQL and SQL are the two primary forms of database used to store and manage digital data, with each providing key differences that support advantages and disadvantages. SQL deals with relational databases and NoSQL deals with non-relational databases. Both methods […]

June 8, 2023

Database professionals are the backbone of any modern company. They are responsible for managing, organizing, and analyzing vast (and rapidly increasing) amounts of information. Their work helps organizations make informed decisions, remain secure, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of the […]

June 7, 2023

Netflix tracks every user’s actions to instantly refine its recommendation engine, then uses this data to propose the content users will love. Uber gathers driver, rider, and partner data in the moment and then updates a prediction engine that informs […]

April 20, 2023

There are several types of databases, and their differing designs process data in different ways. Providing access to information is the primary purpose of a database. They can be used for a variety of tasks, ranging from storing photos to […]

March 9, 2023

Across database structures, dates are ubiquitous: sales date; order date; shipment date; receipt date; created date; last updated date. You might think that with such an abundant presence, dates would be well understood. Sadly, dates hide in the shadows—and many […]

February 9, 2023

In 2023, companies will live and die by their data strategies. Massive increases in information generation, the cloud, and innovative technologies will be top of mind for database managers, all while an uncertain economy continually threatens budgets. For companies to […]

February 7, 2023

The concept of edge computing is simple. It’s about bringing compute and storage capabilities to the edge, to be in close proximity to devices, applications, and users that generate and consume the data. Mirroring the rapid growth of 5G infrastructure, […]

December 30, 2022

Here’s the definition from our Data Glossary: “The Modern Data Stack (MDS) is a heap of open-source tools to achieve end-to-end analytics from ingestion to transformation to ML over to a columnar data warehouse or lake solution with an analytics […]

December 12, 2022

When it comes to data sources, analytic apps developers are facing new and increasingly complex challenges, such as having to deal with higher demand from event data and streaming sources. Here in the early stages of this “stream revolution,” developers […]

September 15, 2022

Time series databases (or TSDBs) are databases that have been optimized for processing time series data. Time series data is made up of data records that are indexed using timestamps. The timestamps provide a reference for each of the data […]

September 8, 2022

There are many reasons why you might want to use an in-memory database when working on ASP.NET Core 6 web applications. Maybe you’re developing a new feature and you want to test it without affecting your production database. Or perhaps […]

August 31, 2022

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database […]

August 29, 2022

As the world begins to generate more data than ever before, a range of tools has been created that help to deal directly with the rising tide. The market for products and tools that help us deal with data is […]

August 22, 2022

Digital transformation represents the ultimate best practice of the modern era – it signifies ongoing change driven by technological advances and expanded capabilities, helps companies and employees exceed their perceived potential, and constantly raises the bar on competition and performance. […]