Databases play a pivotal role in enterprise computing, yet the variety of formats and the growth of data and its complexity make extracting value from them tricky. JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON, ...

Google launched a public beta for a new global database service that features both the consistency of the relational model and the scaling and data functionality of NoSQL offerings. Called Cloud ...

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JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

The development of database technology is one of the defining achievements of the information technology era. It not only has been the key to dramatically improved record-keeping and business process ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

HSBC Bank is one of the world’s leading financial institutions. It is simplifying its data model by running its applications on MongoDB. HSBC is one of the world's most recognisable banking and ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...