Consistency (and eventual consistency) is often treated as a technical risk. Yet, it existed long before computers. Ignoring ...

Abstract: Despite the huge amount of work devoted to the treatment of time within the relational context, some relevant phenomena remain to be fully addressed. We focus on one of them, i.e., temporal ...

Event Sourcing provides LLMs with the richest context. The Model Context Protocol makes this context accessible via a ...

Abstract: Keyword search in relational databases allows the users to query these databases using natural language keywords, bridging the gap between structured data and intuitive querying. However, ...

In today’s data-driven world, databases form the backbone of modern applications—from mobile apps to enterprise systems. Understanding the different types of databases and their applications is ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Databases publish data. This is undoubtedly the case for scientific and statistical databases, which have largely replaced traditional reference works. Database and Web technologies have led to an ...

The importance of storing, organizing, and using data has increased every year. We are living in a data era where being competitive and agile means being able to manage data from a wide range of ...