A new generation of applications is emerging, spawned in large part by the convergence of big data, mobile computing, social media, and the Cloud. This new generation of applications, also known as ...

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 ...

In a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) ...

Transactional database technology “hasn’t actually changed that much in the last 40 years” and is inadequate for today’s operational AI applications and agents, Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali ...

Database systems are the backbone of contemporary data-driven applications, underpinning industries ranging from finance to scientific research. As data volumes surge and complexity increases, robust ...

MarkLogic started out as a pure-play XML database back in 2001. The founders had a background in search, so the notions of shared nothing architecture and inverted indices came naturally, even though ...

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 ...