Back in the 1970s, the ANSI SPARC three-tiered model arose, foreshadowing a smooth intertwining of data and architectural design. The three tiers concept isolated the physical storage needs of data ...

Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, ...

Modern applications rely on humongous amounts of diverse data from sensors, processes, interactions, etc., to operate efficiently. But unless this data is appropriately managed, there is no way these ...

An enterprise conceptual data model is often seen as a high mountain to be climbed, a journey that will last a lifetime. People have visions of 10 feet or more of wall in the corporate offices ...

Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

Undoubtly, databases have become an essential part of everyday life. Every day we engage ourselves in several activities that involve interaction with databases, like when we book an airline ticket, ...

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 ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...