The main problem this time was that the Internet had destroyed the underlying premise of the 40-year-old relational database management system (RDBMS) architecture.

Splice Machine, which positions itself as the provider of the only Hadoop RDBMS, has announced recently that its real-time relational database management system is now available as a public beta.

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing. This release of the 20+ year-old database has tie-ins to Hadoop and Big Data analytics in general.

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities integrated into the core database engine.

As it turned out, however, the old RDBMS dog could learn new tricks. Relational databases figured out how to store complex types using the SQL:1999 object model.

As covered by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its core, flagship relational database, SQL Server, to the Linux operating system. I also work for ...

In the area of SQL compliance, new features in version 1.5 of Splice Machine's Hadoop RDBMS include support for foreign keys, which enables referential integrity between tables, and triggers to ...

Inside a relational database management system, the princi­pal persisted data structure is considered a logical relation. Operations performed against that data within the RDBMS result in a logical ...

Relational databases and the software that access them can be invaluable tools to businesses. Popular relational database management systems include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, as well ...