Document database pipelines may be being affected by schema drift: a guide for developers and DBAs from 3T Software Labs' ...

Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one ...

The definition of a database. It defines the structure and content in each data element within the structure. Schemas are often designed with visual modeling tools that automatically create the SQL ...

The last company I worked at was a Rails shop, so we had activerecord migrations. It wasn't perfect (nothing is), but at least our schema was in source control and there was a reasonable way to move ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Jun 01, 2015, 03:01pm EDT Jun 01, 2015, 03:07pm EDT This ...