How to choose a cloud database
Databases have come a long way since the early 1980s when they only ran on mainframes and your choice was between CODASYL databases and relational databases. CODASYL databases tended to be twice as fast as relational databases, but eventually the improvements in computer hardware and the convenience of SQL queries (versus writing navigational database code) led to relational databases dominating the market.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
Databases have come a long way since the early 1980s when they only ran on mainframes and your choice was between CODASYL databases and relational databases. CODASYL databases tended to be twice as fast as relational databases, but eventually the improvements in computer hardware and the convenience of SQL queries (versus writing navigational database code) led to relational databases dominating the market.
To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)