Polyglot persistence is becoming the norm in big data. Gone are the days when relational databases were the one store to rule them all; now the notion of using stores with data models that best align ...

Victor Lee is director of product management at TigerGraph. Graph databases excel at answering complex questions about relationships in large data sets. But they hit a wall—in terms of both ...

Graph databases excel for apps that explore many-to-many relationships, such as recommendation systems. Let’s look at an example Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. There has been a ...

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 ...

Machine learning, task automation and robotics are already widely used in business. These and other AI technologies are about to multiply, and we look at how organizations can best take advantage of ...

Comcast Corp. is working on ways to better understand its customers’ families. The company plans to roll out features that enable parents to manage the devices their children use at a fine level of ...

The recent increase in the popularity of property graph databases is well-founded, as they fulfill a real need. But as usage continues to ramp up, the limitations of traditional property graph systems ...

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Douglas Adams once wrote of a Holistic Detective Agency. The central character in this story, Dirk Gently, was able to solve cases with his understanding of the fundamental interconnectedness of ...

The analysis of cancer biology data involves extremely heterogeneous data sets, including information from RNA sequencing, genome-wide copy number, DNA methylation data reporting on epigenetic ...