I’ve been using Meteor for the last few months and for the most part I really like it. There’s a big advantage to running the same language on the client and the server, and Meteor takes care of a lot ...

A week ago, news broke that Google will be switching database technologies. They’re moving from the industry standard in relational database management systems (DBMS), Oracle’s open-source MySQL, to ...

Recently, I became the owner of more than a thousand records of Go (an ancient oriental strategic board game) games played by professional or amateur players. All the games were stored in Smart Game ...

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Zack Urlocker likes to compare his employer's database software to a budget airline. It's cheap, devoid of luxurious trappings and doesn't expend much effort catering to customers' whims. But if the ...

Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In database management, it’s easy to assume that newer technologies are always better. While ...

Craigslist handles a boatload of postings every day, but as big as that load is, their daily incoming traffic is not enough to sink a relational vessel. However, managing their archive of postings was ...