SQL is a programming language used for querying and managing data in databases and has become the backbone of modern analytics. Yet, there is no one go-to place for advance analytics using SQL. In…
Ben Nadel discusses database index design, including Primary and Secondary indexes, surrogate and natural keys, uniqueness constraints, foreign keys, covering indexes, and even cow-path paving. His hope here is write the article on database index design that he wishes he had had access to way earlier in his web development career.
The Collected Algorithms (CALGO) is part of a family of publications produced by the ACM. Software associated with papers published in the Transactions on Mathematical Software, as well as other ACM journals are incorporated in CALGO.
Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Unlike SQL databases, CouchDB is designed to store and report on large amounts of semi-structured, document oriented data. It is not a relational database or a replacement for relational databases or an object-oriented database. CouchDB is a peer based distributed database system. Any number of CouchDB hosts (servers and offline-clients) can have independent “replica copies” of the same database.
eXist-db is an open source database management system built using XML technology. It stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.