Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

Additional data or information that can be appended to a crypto transaction on a blockchain is referred to as metadata in blockchain transactions. Metadata is data about data. In the context of ...

Welcome to Data Spotlight, our series showcasing insights derived from Bloomberg’s 8,000+ enterprise datasets available on data.bloomberg.com via Data License. In this edition we take a look at ...

The MongoDB 4.0 release introduced multi-document transactions to the popular open source NoSQL DB. The lack of a transactional capability has been a key limiting factor in MongoDB uptake, so it’s not ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. courtneyk / Getty Images A third-party transaction is a business deal ...

Imagine if, a decade ago, your retail business could have seen how and where consumers were adopting e-commerce. Imagine if you could have observed how adoption patterns differed by age group and by ...