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 ...

Major corporations today dedicate millions to data lakes and data warehouses and data fabrics through advanced analytics systems that operate from on-premises and cloud environments. The process of ...

Microsoft’s donation of DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation marks a strategic shift in the NoSQL database landscape, creating the first vendor-neutral document database standard that could reshape how ...

Ever since the revelation that not all data can be neatly stored in rows and columns, it seems that barely a day goes by without the emergence of yet another new database with its own query engine and ...

Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s built for archives, but scaling write speed and reader access remain big ...

Despite the many and rapid changes in storage in recent years, such as the advent of flash and the move to cloud storage, there are still some fundamentals in place. Among these are the basics of how ...