A data structure comprising data items (the values), each of which has been assigned a name (the key). See key-value pair. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Valkey is an open source key-value database that resides under the Linux Foundation. It is built for high ...

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 ...