The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. One of the more significant is that it has led to the widespread use ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

A DBA will need to make many different types of changes to a database over its lifetime. Some will be simple and easy to implement, others much more difficult and complex. Many types of database ...

Whenever you use PowerShell, whether it is querying data or making a change to some configuration or existing object, you are working with different types of objects. You may not be aware of it ...

Once used primarily for archiving and backup, the technology is gaining traction for its mammoth capacity, processing power, and cybersecurity capabilities. In association withHitachi Vantara When ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern, ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...