At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Everyone knows what a simple database is: Telephone directories, mail-order catalogs and dictionaries are all databases of sorts. Databases can be structured or organized in several different ways: as ...

Relational event models (REMs) have emerged as a pivotal statistical framework for the analysis of time‐stamped interactions within social networks. By treating interactions as discrete events in ...

There are a lot of false heroes in high tech. The late Dr. Edgar (Ted) Codd was the real deal. Codd came up with the notion of relational databases, by applying the beauty of math and predicate logic ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...