A snapshot of the growing usage of XML in collaboration with database management systems

As mobile developers, our applications will need to both aesthetically display the results of our data queries, as well as give users an intuitive interface to store and insert data. In this article by Jason Wei, author of Android Database Programming, we will focus on the former – on binding data to the user interface (UI) and will look specifically at various classes that will allow us to bind our data in the form of lists (the most common and intuitive way to display rows of data).

The pros and cons of O/R mapping versus other data access methods.

Databases are often out of sync with the applications they support, and getting the database and data into a known state is a significant challenge to manage. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall demonstrates how the open source LiquiBase database-migration tool can reduce the pain of managing the constant of change with databases and applications.

This article shows how the behavior driven development can be applied to database development and how it can be used to develop and design databases in an iterative and incremental way.

In order to meet the challenges of Big Data, you must rethink data systems from the ground up. You will discover that some of the most basic ways people manage data in traditional systems like the relational database management system (RDBMS) is too complex for Big Data systems. The simpler, alternative approach is a new paradigm for Big Data. In this article based on chapter 1, author Nathan Marz shows you this approach he has dubbed the “lambda architecture.”

Sometimes, all a DBA needs, to help with day-to-day work, is a checklist of best-practices and dos and don’ts

In this second article in the series on using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to build Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications, learn how to build the Apache Derby database for your Web application, and use it to drive the GWT. Part 1 of this series introduced you to GWT and demonstrated how you can use it to create a rich-client front end for a Web application. This time, you'll go behind the scenes and set up the back end with your database and the code used to convert the data to a format that GWT can use. By the end of this article, you'll be ready for the front end and back end to talk to each other.

Building an NHibernate-based desktop application isn’t any harder than building a web application, and in many cases NHibernate simplifies elements of session handling and concurrency.

This article presents Cayenne - a fast, scalable and easy-to-learn open source Object Relational Mapping (ORM) framework. Cayenne is a rare kind of a Java open source project. It is not just an "edit your own XML" runtime library, but an integrated suite that includes modeling and deployment tools. This article shows how to quickly create an ORM application with Cayenne and discusses its core features and design principles.