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data integration

Data integration is the process of combining data from multiple source systems to create unified sets of information for both operational and analytical uses.

By Craig Stedman • March 15, 2023

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A transcription error is a type of data entry error commonly made by human operators or by optical character recognition (OCR) programs.

By Rahul Awati • March 14, 2023

MongoDB

MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program.

By Bridget Botelho, Alexander Gillis • March 7, 2023

New high-volume agent connectors highlight Fivetran update

The data ingestion specialist's latest platform update focuses on enabling users to ingest high volumes of data to fuel real-time analysis and adds a new private deployment option.

By Eric Avidon • March 6, 2023

3 V’s (volume, velocity and variety)

The 3 V's (volume, velocity and variety) are three defining properties or dimensions of big data.

By Ben Lutkevich, Ivy Wigmore • March 3, 2023

Data stewardship: Essential to data governance strategies

As data governance gets increasingly complicated, data stewards are stepping in to manage security and quality. Without one, organizations lose speed, quality info and opportunity.

By George Lawton • March 2, 2023

What’s all this talk about data mesh?

Data mesh brings a variety of benefits to data management, but it also presents challenges if organizations don't have the right culture and infrastructure in place.

By Stephen Catanzano • March 2, 2023

Successful data analytics starts with the discovery process

As organizational data grows more complex, discovery processes help organizations identify patterns to solve potential issues and improve business processes.

By Koushik Nandiraju • Feb. 28, 2023

data warehouse

A data warehouse is a repository of data from an organization's operational systems and other sources that supports analytics applications to help drive business decision-making.

By Jacqueline Biscobing, Mary Pratt • Feb. 28, 2023

Avoid data sprawl with a single source of truth

Enterprise Strategy Group research shows organizations are struggling with real-time data insights. A single source of truth can make operations more efficient and more accurate.

By Stephen Catanzano • Feb. 13, 2023

InfluxData raises $81M to advance time series capabilities

The vendor is the creator and lead sponsor of the open source InfluxDB database and plans to use the new funding to further product development as it aims for profitability.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 10, 2023

6 best cross-chain bridges in 2023

Multichain, Celer cBridge and Portal Token Bridge are just a few of the cross-chain bridges available today.

By Sean Kerner • Feb. 9, 2023

ESG predicts 2023 shifts for DataOps, data management

Organizations are using cloud technologies and DataOps to access real-time data insights and decision-making in 2023, according to Enterprise Strategy Group research.

By Stephen Catanzano • Jan. 25, 2023

Data management trends: Convergence and more money

The past year focused heavily on data intelligence, lakehouse development and observability as vendors innovated to help enterprises make effective use of converged data and technologies.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 19, 2023

Data-centric developer responsibilities evolve in 2022

Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst Stephen Catanzano discusses how data-centric developer responsibilities are evolving as technological advancements enable more data use.

By Peter Spotts • Jan. 17, 2023

Organizations capitalize on intelligent data management

Intelligent data management concepts are opening new avenues for organizations to make better data-centric decisions and extract more value from their data.

By Christophe Bertrand • Jan. 12, 2023

structured data

Structured data is data that has been organized into a formatted repository, typically a database.

By Ben Lutkevich • Jan. 4, 2023

database replication

Database replication is the frequent electronic copying of data from a database in one computer or server to a database in another -- so that all users share the same level of information.

By Ben Lutkevich • Dec. 29, 2022

DataOps

DataOps is an Agile approach to designing, implementing and maintaining a distributed data architecture that will support a wide range of open source tools and frameworks in production.

By George Lawton, Jack Vaughan • Dec. 29, 2022

Comparing DBMS vs. RDBMS: Key differences

A relational database management system is the most popular type of DBMS for business uses. Find out how RDBMS software differs from other DBMS technologies.

By Craig Stedman • Dec. 28, 2022

data source name (DSN)

A data source name (DSN) is a data structure containing information about a specific database to which an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver needs to connect.

By Andrew Zola • Dec. 21, 2022

data observability

Data observability is a process and set of practices that aim to help data teams understand the overall health of the data in their organization's IT systems.

By Mary Pratt • Dec. 21, 2022

Data forecast for 2023: Time to extract more value

Expect more organizations to optimize data usage to drive decision intelligence and operations in 2023, as the new year will be one of economic challenges for many.

By Sean Kerner • Dec. 20, 2022

Apache Cassandra 4.1 extends open source NoSQL database

The open source Cassandra database is out with its first major update in 18 months, bringing with it an improved consensus protocol to boost transaction performance.

By Sean Kerner • Dec. 15, 2022

Aiven launches managed ClickHouse database as a service

The open source database cloud services vendor continues to expand the number of technologies it supports, adding new analytics capabilities in a managed offering.

By Sean Kerner • Dec. 13, 2022