There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

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Ranjith Rajasekharan shares his vision for the future of Oracle Cloud DBAs, highlighting how AI-driven automation is ...

The evolution of software architecture is contributing to increasing energy consumption.

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Is software architecture art, science, engineering, or something new? This debate has long been central to the community.

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...

More than 400 million terabytes of digital data are generated every day, according to market researcher Statista, including data created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide. By 2028 the total ...