Additional data or information that can be appended to a crypto transaction on a blockchain is referred to as metadata in blockchain transactions. Metadata is data about data. In the context of ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

Welcome to Data Spotlight, our series showcasing insights derived from Bloomberg’s 8,000+ enterprise datasets available on data.bloomberg.com via Data License. In this edition we take a look at ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

What is fake transaction simulation? Fake transaction simulation is yet another wallet-draining threat to unsuspecting crypto users. Also known as transaction simulation spoofing, scammers create the ...

INTRODUCTION - Over the past few decades, the importance of data has grown dramatically. Deemed “the new oil”1 in 2006, today data ...

With necessity being the mother of invention, PlanetScale co-founder Jiten Vaidya needed a way to scale the MySQL databases that were running many of YouTube's operational systems. They developed a ...