Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. The past 10 years have seen the explosive growth of large-scale distributed systems. This trend has produced a whirlwind of creativity in the ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

Most enterprise software has a contingent of zealots, people so steeped in the technology that they are convinced it is the be-all and end-all, or those who have taken so many certification exams that ...

Brilliant Database’s point-and-click scripting simplifies adding functionality to your database. Brilliant Database is a relational database package that includes table design, reporting, scripting, ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Have you ever wanted to build a database but don't know where to start? This course will provide you a step-by-step guidance. We are going to start from a raw idea to an implementable relational ...

At my last job I worked on a monolith that sat on top of a NoSQL database. Our DAOs were fairly simple beasts that did mostly CRUD operations and some non-trivial finds. For the vast majority of data, ...

The Brookhaven Protein Data Bank was once a pioneering database, but its organization of structural data is now outdated and in need of an upgrade. Although structural biology was once a leader in ...

When Socrates reportedly said the “unexamined life is not worth living,” the Greek philosopher didn’t imagine the modern internet with its seemingly unlimited ability to absorb data. Every mouse click ...