Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

As companies choose the right database to build their services on for cloud-native services, the idea of a distributed database is a hot topic. Cockroach Labs Inc., which offers a distributed SQL ...

Cary Breese, CEO, and Sumeet Sheokand, CTO, of GenieDB came by to introduce me to their company and their Database as a Service offering. Their demo of a distributed database running in three ...

In just 100 seconds, this video breaks down Apache Cassandra, the distributed database that powers some of the largest ...

Fauna, a database whose founders came from Twitter, is adding an important capability for enterprises seeking to operate global databases; a new "region groups" feature that enables enterprises to ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

As cloud computing matures there’s no doubt that much more emphasis will be placed on the elasticity of the data deployed across global networks of cloud computing platforms. Today, what we have are ...

Flexible, expanding database services is the best solution for large-user-base companies that are scaling as they rapidly accelerate cloud and digital, says a database veteran. SkySQL and Xpand, the ...

The story of SimpleGeo is a familiar one: two founders — Matt Galligan and Joe Stump — set off to create location-based games, only to find that the tools they wanted to use to build their apps didn’t ...