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, ...

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 ...

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While Hadoop and Hive aren’t inherently bad, they no longer represent the state of the art.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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cloud-based ETO provider Matillion announced that Eric Benson has been appointed chief revenue officer. Benson arrives at the English-American company having spent more than 10 years at AWS in ...

Data scientists spend about 45% of their time on data preparation tasks, including loading and cleaning data, according to a survey of data scientists conducted by Anaconda. The company also analyzed ...

Why is Postgres so popular now, after so many years of mediocre uptake? By all accounts, there are multiple reasons for the popularity. DB-Engines.com attributes Postgres’ long winning streak to “high ...