Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. The definition and notion of so-called spatial data is not ...

Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, a theoretical astrophysicist at The University of Texas at Dallas, has spent his career seeking answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries, including why the ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

Time-series data comes from monitoring changes over time. It’s not a new idea. Changes in rainfall patterns and stock performance figures have been tracked for hundreds of years. Before computers, ...

The nearly 30-year-old Hubble Space telescope continues to deliver outstanding data to astronomers. Now, NASA says that data Hubble has been gathering over the years could challenge what we thought we ...

The world’s largest digital sky survey has released its second edition of data, a mammoth 1.6 petabytes of data that makes it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released. Just for ...

The arc of the vector database story has followed a classic path: A pervasive hype cycle, followed by introspection, correction and maturation. In 2025, vector search is no longer the shiny object ...

Why does data storage have to be so hard? Drive failures, bit rot, file system errors and more. CPUs and networks seem to just work - why not storage? Entropy, my friend, entropy. The Universe hates ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...