Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

When NoSQL first hit the IT consciousness in 2009, an explosion of NoSQL databases seemed to appear out of thin air. Some of these contenders had in fact been around for some time, with others thrown ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Valkey is an open source key-value database that resides under the Linux Foundation. It is built for high ...

Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block ...