Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, USAF (Ret.), once observed that one of the peculiar behaviors of the intelligence community is to erect totem poles to the latest fad, ...

Two-and-a-half quintillion bytes of data are created daily. This could potentially rise even more thanks to better internet access. Today, we can collect big data from every imaginable field we're ...

Historical sales and pricing information. Remember when “knowing your customer” was limited to these two metrics? We had no way of knowing just how important data would become in today’s omnichannel ...

When British mathematician Clive Humby declared in 2006 that “data is the new oil,” he meant that data, like oil, isn’t useful in its raw state. It needs to be refined, processed and turned into ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...