I recently had the opportunity to speak with Antony “Tony” Falco, CEO and Co-Founder of Orchestrate, about the idea of offering a database as a service (DBaaS) product and what it can mean to ...

All large organizations, and a whole lot of small ones, use databases. These tools keep names, dates, numbers and other tidbits of information neatly in order, organized into tables by common ...

Startup Quander aims to help brands "deliver a memorable, measurable, multi-sensory brand experience". It uses interactive technology to enhance the customer experience, while capturing the data that ...

Twenty years ago, my development team built a natural language processing engine that scanned employment, auto, and real estate advertisements for searchable categories. I knew that we had a difficult ...

Sometimes, you need to store more complex data in your app than just simple key/value pairs saved with a text file or Shared Preferences. Databases are ideal for storing complex data structures and ...

Under the banner of big data marches a confusing mass of terminology and acronyms. NoSQL is among them, attracting growing interest from businesses struggling to cope with exploding volumes and new ...

After writing a column searching for Linux alternatives to Microsoft’s low-end database, Access, I received some great replies. Many readers pointed out the limitations of Microsoft Access, and while ...