Collecting data, extracting value, and combining insights from relational and context-rich sources of many modalities in data processing pipelines presents a challenge for traditional relational DBMS.

Graph-relational database developer EdgeDB Inc. is gearing up for prime time after closing on a $15 million early-stage round of funding ahead of its official launch early next year.

Relational Algebras We start by describing the classical (or non-categorical) view of relational theories because it should look more familiar to most people. The classical story starts with universal ...

Bob Muglia says twenty years of work on database innovation will bring the relational calculus of E.F. Codd to knowledge graphs, what he calls "relational knowledge graphs," to revolutionize ...

Tables are grids, similar to spreadsheets that have rows, columns, and headers. In dealing with a relational database, everything is a grid. Obviously, tables are grids, views are grids, and the ...

As data analytics has become an important application for modern data management systems, a new category of data management system has appeared recently: the scalable linear algebra system. We argue ...

I'm happy to spin up 10 app servers rather than make the single database faster, but I'm not sure these apps would be offloading much from the database just by doing "joins" in-memory.