Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

Nelson Pecora, lead developer on Newsela’s content management system team, with a visualization of Newsela content in a Dgraph database. With online learning becoming the norm, many teachers in the ...

In a world that is all about new apps and cloud computing, sometimes the important stuff doesn’t look new or cool. Sometimes key small business tools are just functional, they might have been around a ...

On top of business's growing frustration with proprietary software, the relational database model championed by the big vendors is looking increasingly dated, according to the CEO of leading ...

At my last job I worked on a monolith that sat on top of a NoSQL database. Our DAOs were fairly simple beasts that did mostly CRUD operations and some non-trivial finds. For the vast majority of data, ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Most enterprise software has a contingent of zealots, people so steeped in the technology that they are convinced it is the be-all and end-all, or those who have taken so many certification exams that ...