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 ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

In the world of database technology, there are two main types of databases: SQL and NoSQL—or, relational databases and non-relational databases. The difference speaks to how they’re built, the type of ...