Business information is mostly generated by systems or people. Data from systems is most likely to be structured. In its traditional format, this is most typified by data in relational databases that ...

This new debate is principally focused on whether it is better to continue adherence to the SQL database structure with which we are most familiar (read “Manufacturing Databases”) or hitch our wagons ...

We are in the midst of an unstructured data revolution – with 80% of data likely to be unstructured by 2025, according to IDC. The rise of advanced analytics and in particular artificial ...

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

As more computing functions move to the cloud, a relatively new database format — NoSQL — is poised to take the place of the SQL database on which so many manufacturers rely. Automation experts weigh ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...