Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

I have a directed graph with nodes. Call it a graph of cities and roads connecting them. The cities are named in a mostly but not guaranteed-unique way. A road is identified by the city it departs ...

A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Fifty years ago, relational databases were neither ubiquitous nor standardized.