An item of data that is identified by an arbitrary name. The key is the name, and the value is the content; for example, the key might be CITY, and the value might be CHICAGO. A key-value database is ...

Samsung-backed start-up Stellus emerged from stealth mode to announce its software defined Stellus Data Platform. This is a storage technology involving native key-value stores to create a new type of ...

Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block ...

Key-value stores are the simplest, most fundamental data storage systems. Rather than providing elaborate query languages, most of them provide simple interfaces to store and retrieve data. Businesses ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

The Python programming language, despite its ease of use, offers a depth of useful functions, modules and data structures. One of these data structures, the "dictionary" data structure, functions as a ...