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 ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

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 ...

Database systems are the backbone of contemporary data-driven applications, underpinning industries ranging from finance to scientific research. As data volumes surge and complexity increases, robust ...

The new transaction database was developed by Jim Starkey, who joined MySQL when it acquired his Web application technology company in February MySQL is due to unveil a new transaction database engine ...

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aerospike, Inc. (“Aerospike”), today unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. Version 8 adds ...