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 ...

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. In the real world, where databases and storage are separate, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.

What’s the best way to store, search, and analyze content not based on their technical characteristics but on their meaning? The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects ...

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever. At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Victor Dey is an analyst and writer covering AI and emerging tech. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...