The idea is pretty simple and actually pretty old: Use a distributed architecture on large databases to quickly return the data requested. This approach runs the database query across many servers at ...

The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison has repeatedly called the firm’s new Autonomous Database “the most important thing we have ever done,” and today he announced ...

Oracle Corp’s. Exadata X9M online transaction processing database is like an automobile on the professional racing circuit. Every few months, Oracle takes the race car into the garage for fine tuning ...

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Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Dec. 19, 2013) -- Data volumes are in a stage of continuous growth, particularly in the areas of science, industry, and the military. Thus, the issue of authenticated ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. For the last two years, we’ve been writing about Intel Optane persistent memory, knowing that scores of ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...