Can software development be accelerated and materially reduce refactoring of in-production modules by giving data modelling a more prominent position in the Agile software development environment?

Unified data modeling supports features like document schema of NoSQL databases and reverse engineering of data from an existing database. It also supports visual refactoring of existing databases.

Microsoft has made a promised public preview of its Common Data Model (CDM) entity database available to testers. CDM is at the heart of the coming Microsoft Dynamics 365 bundle.

Graph data modeling requires a different paradigm than modeling with Relational or other NoSQL databases. InfoQ spoke with Jim Webber and Ian Robinson about data modeling with Graph databases.

Alternatively, if a solution is being built internally, an existing canonical data model can be a valuable jump-start to the process of building a physical database design covering one or more areas ...

Most projects benefit from having a data model. Read this article for an overview of the most common types.

Increasingly, customers are demanding that their databases take on multiple chores. Emergence of multi-model databases providing developers multiple paths through APIs is the latest evidence of ...

Storing data in multi-model database wards off this problem. As a modern management system, multi-model databases offer an elegant solution to managing diverse and unstructured data.

This approach features a centralized database linked to other data stores with a common data model that carries information from one point to another, without the need to rewrite code.

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