Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Splice Machine Inc., which tackles Big Data analytics with a SQL-based relational database management system (RDBMS) rather than the more common NoSQL approach, is open sourcing its technology, it ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Relational databases and the software that access them can be invaluable tools to businesses. Popular relational database management systems include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, as well as ...

"Database" has come to be largely synonymous with a relational database management system (RDBMS) or, more specifically, a relational database that is accessed using the SQL query language. Some ...

Postgres (PostgreSQL) is gaining in popularity. I see it from the customers I interact with, who last year voted Postgres as the number-one new database they wanted support for on SolarWinds’ THWACK ...