The Future of Enterprise Data
OK, I know. ”Big Data”. It’s “big”. It’s “in”. It’s important. It’s true. It’s here to stay. Now what? First, some stats: 1. 90% of the world’s data was produced in the last two years. 2. The...
View ArticleYou Just Want a Humvee of a Database
The rise and fall of the Humvee have a few lessons for us in the database industry. Short of the artillery, some of the coolest features of the Humvee developed for military purposes—because the old...
View ArticleEDB Makes Open Call for Postgres NoSQL Performance Benchmarks
EnterpriseDB has begun running comparison tests to help Postgres users better assess the NoSQL capabilities of Postgres. The tests compare PostgreSQL (often called Postgres) with MongoDB as recent...
View ArticleTales from the Trenches – the New MongoDB FDW
This blog was co-written by Ahsan Hadi and Ibrar Ahmed. Postgres provides a powerful feature called Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW) which enables DBAs to use the system as a single integration point to...
View ArticleThe Role of Cloud Databases is Expanding
Organizations today are increasingly using public cloud resources, and specifically cloud databases, for a range of mission-critical workloads. The public cloud has increased in importance for larger...
View ArticleNow Live: PG XDK for Postgres NoSQL App Development
If you are a Postgres fan, and not living under a rock the past few months, then you have heard the buzz about JSONB coming to PostgreSQL 9.4. You may have also seen code samples that show how easy it...
View Article42% of Database Pros Struggle to Manage NoSQL Solutions
Two years ago, my colleague Bruce Momjian wrote that relational databases would adapt to emerging database demands and incorporate the capabilities that emerging standalone NoSQL solutions provided. He...
View ArticlePostgres: Have Your NoSQL Cake and Eat it Too
Standalone NoSQL database solutions are easy to use, fast to deploy, and make getting an application up and running a piece of cake. That’s the sweet part though. What comes later, however, is a...
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