EDB Says It Tops Oracle, Other Databases in Benchmarks. EDB Postgres AI, the latest PostgreSQL-based database from EnterpriseDB (EDB), outperformed four other databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, ...

ORC, Parquet, and Avro are also machine-readable binary formats, which is to say that the files look like gibberish to humans. If you need a human-readable format like JSON or XML, then you should ...

Access to more information does not necessarily lead to better decision making, according to a new study from Oracle. Though 83% of those surveyed agree that access to more data should make decisions ...

While Hadoop and Hive aren’t inherently bad, they no longer represent the state of the art. For once, they are completely based on the JVM, which is incredibly performant nowadays, but still not the ...

OpenText, provider of an integrated information management platform, has released the results of a survey that found eight out of 10 global workers are suffering from information overload due to ...

Note that there are numerous web standard ontologies for data catalog, metadata, glossaries, and lineage that should be reused: DCAT to represent a data catalog; Dublin Core to represent metadata; ...

The data we have now is huge. But size, it turns out, is a relative thing. And according to the IDC, the sum of the world’s data – the DataSphere — will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to a ...

In this age of information, to say that the volume of data is exploding is a stark understatement. This big bang of big data is estimated to grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025, ...

However, Anaconda did something interesting with that April 2020 change: It didn’t specify what “heavy commercial use” actually meant. The company decided to rely on the honor system because it was ...

“Most new applications are built in the cloud and store their data in these cloud object stores. And organizations are moving quickly to ETL data from other applications such as operational databases ...

During a presentation at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week, the director of data science for Walmart Labs shared how the company’s new GPU-based demand forecasting model achieved a ...

Never before have the challenges of big data–how we store it, manage it, govern it, and use it–been so pressing. Advances in artificial intelligence may be the driving force in 2024, but that doesn’t ...