Data Management/RDBMS

Data Management/RDBMS

Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling. Check the InfoWorld Review score card to see how MongoDB stacks up among NoSQL data stores.
Andrew Glover, February 2012

Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier
Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs
Peter Wayner, January 2012

Jaspersoft aims its open source analytics suite at PaaS developers
Red Hat's OpenShift is the first in a series of platform-as-a-service offerings to feature Jaspersoft's suite.
Chris Kanaracus, January 2012

Picking the top technologies in a wild year
The 12th annual InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards boldly choose the best of the best, including CloudBees, Node.js, and Heroku.
Eric Knorr, January 2012

2011: When cloud computing shook the data center
Despite a year of surging private cloud activity and major build-outs in public cloud capacity, the cloud's promised simplification remains elusive.
Eric Knorr, December 2011

First look: Oracle NoSQL Database
Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is enterprise ready and practically ACID. Could this be the NoSQL data store for the buttoned-down business crowd? [Originally published on InfoWorld, November 16, 2011.]
Peter Wayner, December 2011

Java apps face more performance issues, study finds
Findings from a wide-ranging software quality analysis study indicate that enterprise Java applications have more performance issues than similar enterprise software. The study also measured the real cost of technical debt, and evaluated software developed using waterfall versus agile methodologies.
Paul Krill, December 2011

InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies
InfoWorld's editors and contributors weigh their bets on which of the groundbreaking technologies and trends of 2011 -- from HTML5 to Hadoop to private clouds -- will hold steady over the long haul, and could change IT for the better.
InfoWorld Staff, November 2011

Picking the top 10: Technologies vs. trends
Prognosticating the future impact of today's emerging technologies is a game for gamblers, both the skilled and the lucky. InfoWorld's editor-in-chief explains the knack and the numbers behind IW's recently published Top 10 list.
Eric Knorr, November 2011

Why we still love open source
Open source is the medium of choice for the world's most creative developers, as shown by InfoWorld's 2011 Best of Open Source Software Awards.
Eric Knorr, September 2011

VMware launches a developer edition for Cloud Foundry
Micro Cloud Foundry lets developers build out and test apps before moving them to an actual Cloud Foundry service.
Joab Jackson, August 2011

Java 7: What's in it for developers
After a long wait and a rough start, Java 7 brings a multitude of improvements for developers.
Paul Krill, August 2011

It's official: 'Cloud computing' is now meaningless
Gartner's 2011 hype cycle shows that cloud computing is entering the trough of disillusionment; few are as cloud-centric as they claim.
David Linthicum, August 2011

OpenStack's cloud future looks rosy
Tech companies are paying more than lip service to the open source cloud platform.
Ted Samson, July 2011

NoSQL standouts: New databases for new applications
How Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, Riak, Neo4J, and FlockDB are reinventing the data store.
Peter Wayner, July 2011

Find more >