The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of business information is likely to be formed of unstructured data by 2025. And while “unstructured” can be something of a misnomer, because all files have some sort ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.

What’s the best way to store, search, and analyze content not based on their technical characteristics but on their meaning? The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever. At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux ...

Web3 technology brings a new way to handle health information. By leveraging blockchain and decentralized networks, Web3 ...

Manan Shah is the Founder and CEO of Avalance Global Solutions, a California-based web3 cybersecurity and information security company. Data is at the core of the ongoing technological revolution.

I can’t remember the first time a database or storage vendor told me, “Disk is cheap,” but it was probably in the 1990s. Vendors like to say disk is cheap because it helps them sell more of it and to ...