What's the difference b/n a DBMS and a file system. So far from what I have been able to gather a file system 'manages' files (e.g. XFS, NTFS) and a DBMS stores data usng a format/structure (e.g.

APFS is Apple's first new file system in more than 30 years. Here's what it means for existing Macs and new hardware. I've been writing about software and hardware for PCMag for more than 40 years, ...

So, I have some Java code which creates a file, then runs one of several external binaries upon that file using exec. The external binary reads the provided file, does its processing, then dumps its ...

Add Symantec to the rapidly growing list of tech vendors aiming to groom Apache Hadoop for the enterprise. The company today announced Symantec Enterprise for Hadoop, an add-on with which companies ...

When you need to know when a file or folder appears, disappears or is renamed -- in fact, if almost anything at all happens in the file system -- you can have Windows notify your application so that ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...