Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A decade ago, most businesses and organizations typically used one database, and that was ...

Choosing a database used to be simple. If you needed a way of storing and analyzing information generated by a website or some other business, you picked from a short list of databases that were more ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Although DBAs, at a high level, are tasked with managing and assuring the efficiency of database systems, there are actually many different types of DBAs. Some focus on logical design, others focus on ...

How can these decentralized and distributed databases be applied? The databases accelerate the communication between different parties in the production lane. Let’s consider the following example. In ...

Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. The past 10 years have seen the explosive growth of large-scale distributed systems. This trend has produced a whirlwind of creativity in the ...

The days of one-size-fits-all, monolithic databases are behind us. As Werner Vogels, CTO and vice president of Amazon.com, said, “Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.” ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

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