Developing a persistent domain model for an enterprise application is challenging. The reason we implement the business logic with a domain model is because the problem domain is complex. Therefore, ...

It’s rare in the world of software to see a single architecture dominate as comprehensively as the relational database model. The relational database (RDBMS)—actually a hybrid of Codd’s relational ...

NoSQL entered the scene nearly six years ago as an alternative to traditional relational databases. The offerings from the major relational vendors couldn’t cut it in terms of the cost, scalability, ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

There are many different ways to look at database administration. It can be done by task, by discipline, by DBMS, by server, and so on. But one useful way to look at database administration is in ...