In this video, David Mizell from YarcData discusses what analysis scenerios call for a graph database vs. a triple store relational database. In order to find the unknown, you often have to know the ...

Graph databases, which explicitly express the connections between nodes, are more efficient at the analysis of networks (computer, human, geographic, or otherwise) than relational databases. That ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an RDF store database? RDF stores enable modeling, representation and ...

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In the age when data is everything to a business, managers and analysts alike are looking to emerging forms of databases to paint a clear picture of how data is delivering to their businesses. The ...

Relational databases (RDBMSs) have been the dominant data management tool for 30 years. They proved to be a good solution for the capture and management of structured data and fairly reasonable for ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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When Teradata bought Aster Data in 2011, it set out on a quest to bring (then) esoteric Big Data technology to the relational database faithful. Specifically, Aster's SQL-MapReduce facility allowed ...