It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and ...

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SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

For decades, the choice has been among relational databases from a variety of vendors, but that era is ending, argues Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem. Relational databases are no longer the default ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Subbiah Sundaram, senior ...

Companies across every industry increasingly understand that making data-driven decisions is a necessity to compete now, in the next five years, in the next 20 and beyond. Data growth — unstructured ...

Sensor data and IoT applications have special requirements that might be better served by a specialized database. Here’s what to consider. The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, ...

What if you could future-proof your career by stepping into one of the most in-demand tech roles of the decade? As companies increasingly rely on data to drive decisions, the role of a data engineer ...