John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to ...

There's a significant shift afoot in storage fundamentals, and it's not storage area networks (SANs) or network attached storage (NAS) -- although both will have critical roles in these new ...