Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Where in-memory databases are used (spoiler: everywhere!). Suitability of in-memory databases for microcontrollers. Risks and mitigation of data loss. How an in-memory database is different than ...

The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

Traditionally, data in tables has been stored in row format. This is good for operations in which the whole row and many columns are accessed—as long as there are few rows. It’s not ideal for many ...

Amazon Web Services, which already offers a portfolio of 15 databases, is now releasing one more. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a real-time database implementation that is based in part on the open ...

When Aquant Inc. was looking to build its platform — an artificial intelligence service that supports field technicians and agents teams with an AI-powered copilot to provide personalized ...

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering ...