In 1998, the FBI launched the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), a database that federally licensed gun dealers use to determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible 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 ...

Modern applications have two primary needs: performance and ease of operations, both at scale. The performance consists of two aspects: high-throughput and low-latency. While many businesses take a ...

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A 'picker' gathers items at Amazon's Fulfilment Centre in Peterborough, central England, on November 28, 2013. 'Cyber Monday' which falls this year on Monday December 2, 2013, is expected to be the ...

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. According to Gartner, the transition of DBMS software purchasing – moving from ...

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 ...