The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.

When you eliminate the dependency on local storage, the database becomes an active, real-time engine, not just a place to ...

Manan Shah is the Founder and CEO of Avalance Global Solutions, a California-based web3 cybersecurity and information security company. Data is at the core of the ongoing technological revolution.

Institutions need to move away from a reactive habit of expanding storage and towards a more deliberate data management model based on understanding and control.

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever. At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux ...