Middleware doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Considered the glue that holds together the more complex and more business-critical components in the software stack, middleware is often installed and forgotten...
Adoption of document databases is growing rapidly in response to the need for solutions that can handle large volumes of data. These solutions are adept at handling non-relational data models...
It's nice to see that PostgreSQL 9.5 is finally released! There are a number of blog posts out about that already, not to mention stories in InfoWorld, V3, and a...
The release of PostgreSQL 9.5 marks a turning point for enterprises using PostgreSQL for the development of high-speed mobile, web and digital economy applications, many for customer engagement.
Parallelism is now a reality in PostgreSQL. With 9.6, I hope we will see many different forms of queries that can use parallelism to execute. For now, I will limit...
I previously suggested that we might be able to get parallel sequential scan committed to PostgreSQL 9.5. That did not happen. However, I'm pleased to report that I've just committed...
The only data structure recognized in traditional SQL databases was the row, and repeating groups were extracted into child rows linked through foreign keys. It worked well but could be...
It doesn’t take a specialized solution to create an unstructured database to support workloads for emerging mobile, social and machine data. Certainly, NoSQL-only solutions have a place in the data...
The typical data center today contains a patchwork of data management technologies. From enterprise-class relational databases to limited, standalone NoSQL-only solutions to specialized extensions, the arsenal for managing data has...
PostgreSQL has three shutdown modes: smart, fast, and immediate. For many years, the default has been "smart", but Bruce Momjian has just committed a patch to change the default to...
