Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. Because for certain workloads, including vector search and retrieval ...

At the crux of many an enterprise-scale big data system stands either MapReduce or a parallel database management system. But which is more efficient? Researchers from Dublin Institute of Technology, ...

Both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, which also included parallel database system maker Tandem and minicomputer innovator Digital Equipment Corp when HP bought Compaq for $25 billion back in September ...