Data Management

Scaling throughput and performance in a sharding database system

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not.

DataStax CEO: Every use case doesn’t need a new database

The CEO of the enterprise NoSQL database company believes the database market is too fragmented, and he has a plan to fix it.

Databricks targets data pipeline automation with Delta Live Tables

Google Cloud releases BigLake to unify data platforms

Google describes BigLake as a one-stop data platform that allows data analytics and data engineering on both structured and unstructured data.

Postgres everywhere

SQLite is embedded everywhere. Will Postgres follow suit?

Career roadmap: Machine learning engineer

As organizations worldwide adopt machine learning across virtually every industry, the demand for machine learning engineers is on the rise.

5 ways to improve on spreadsheets for business workflows

When data and workflows get complicated, these platform approaches work far more efficiently and reliably than a spreadsheet.

Is distributed data realistic?

Data everywhere may be the future of cloud-native and edge computing deployments, but the possibilities come with expense and management issues.

Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

PlanetScale introduces Rewind feature to ‘undo’ bad schema migrations

Customers of PlanetScale’s database-as-a-service can now safely revert changes from schema migrations within 30 minutes of a deployment request.