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.

The PR rep said, “The heyday of the 30-year-old relational database is over, and Oracle has missed the shift to next-generational database technology needed to meet today’s big data challenges ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

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 ...

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Relational database developers shun the document-centric approach because of its tendency to create redundant data that can introduce errors and complexity into application engineering.

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NoSQL is a response to the dramatic growth of unstructured data within the enterprise, and promises to be the biggest challenge to the established relational database management system (RDBMS ...

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document ...