Data can be classified as structured, semi-structured or unstructured – but what bearing do these classifications have on a company’s data-handling strategy? The short answer is that it is becoming ...

MySQL ECO Marten Mickos opened the morning session of the Web 2.0 Summit with his dream of the great database in the sky. He envisioned a database in which all structured data could be shared, open ...

Processing power, networking and memory/storage are key ingredients in every computing architecture and they are key factors in running any application. In this piece we want to talk about the impact ...

Structured data is a small and declining percentage of business information. But it is critically important for almost all organisations. Structured data volumes are growing more slowly than stores of ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...