Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

Data isn't just oil anymore; it’s the oxygen your enterprise breathes. In 2026, the volume of data flowing through the average mid-to-large enterprise isn't just massive—it’s complex, messy, and ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Martin Bayer: Traditional database provider, platform provider, cloud provider, AI provider or a bit of everything? What does Oracle actually stand for today? Thorsten Herrmann: The thrust is clearly ...

Oracle Database provides several solutions for connection pooling, which is essential for efficiently managing database connections, improving performance, and reducing resource usage in applications ...

Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs. The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s ...

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The heart of any relational database management system is the system catalog that documents the database objects and system settings being used. The system catalog offers a wealth of information about ...

The Oracle R2DBC Driver is a Java library that supports reactive programming with Oracle Database. Oracle R2DBC implements the R2DBC Service Provider Interface (SPI) as specified by the Reactive ...