In a distributed database, the data systems are held in different physical locations but can be accessed by all computers on a system. Processing is also shared among the many nodes—a ...

The distributed database system is a third category of a distributed system. A database is distributed among several computers or nodes under this architecture, and they all work together to store ...

Where we are today is not hybrid cloud rebranded. Hybrid was a transition strategy. Distributed is an entirely new operating environment, where cloud infrastructure and services are physically located ...

But the database has a hard limit in terms of scalability, since it essentially was restricted to running on a single server. With today’s launch of Neo4j 4.0, the company has taken the first step in ...

A distributed SQL database is “lightweight, portable and fast for the cloud, but still reliable and familiar so that application developers can use it for multiple workloads,” he added. Cost ...

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 ...

But when it comes to a distributed database system such as TiDB, the most important consideration is balancing load across all components. PingCAP PingCAP PingCAP Tuning the RocksDB storage engine.

Fauna is delivered as a managed cloud database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). But don't call it a database. Fauna is appealing to developers, not DBAs or data engineers.

“But instead of doing it at the file system, we’re starting at the database as our core.” Not a Magic Box. There are certain tradeoffs to this approach. “We don’t do magic, of course. but we make ...