The original intention of surrogate keys across multidimensional database designs was to help optimize joins by keeping all keys, used for joining between facts and dimensions, both numeric and single ...

The structured limitations of relational databases don't support modern advancements as well as NoSQL databases. The simplicity of a NoSQL key-value store offers a flexible architecture to process ...

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly ...

Relational databases are a staple across industries, but graph databases offer different capabilities that may fit enterprise needs better. Graph databases are one of four popular NoSQL database types ...