Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Oracle Database 21c is the result of four decades of development. Oracle Database was the first commercial SQL-based relational database (1979), implemented based on a published IBM specification.

Even with all the hype around NoSQL, traditional relational databases still make sense for enterprise applications. Here are four reasons why.

In the area of SQL compliance, new features in version 1.5 of Splice Machine's Hadoop RDBMS include support for foreign keys, which enables referential integrity between tables, and triggers to ...

Traditional RDBMS technology is incapable of handling the demands of unstructured, big data. BI pros are now going beyond RDBMS and exploring new options.

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