Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor' Exclusive Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

Amazon Web Services's AI Shanghai Lablet division has created a new predictive model -- an open-source benchmarking tool called 4DBInfer used to graph predictive modeling on RDBs, a relational ...

Even as large language models have been making a splash with ChatGPT and its competitors, another incoming AI wave has been quietly emerging: large database models. Even as large language models have ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Even the best AI models are challenged to carry out tasks via MCP.New benchmarks show models struggle ...

NoSQL entered the scene nearly six years ago as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The offerings from the major relational vendors couldn’t cut it in terms of the cost, scalability, ...

Vector databases and search aren’t new, but vectorization is essential for generative AI and working with LLMs. Here's what you need to know. One of my first projects as a software developer was ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Over the past decade, we’ve seen a wave of diversification followed by consolidation in database technologies. Rela­tional databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server com­pletely dominated ...

The information below serves as a brief primer to help you better understand the database terms you’ll most often encounter. Relational Databases. Relational databases became the database of choice ...