The distributed database management system (DDBMS) periodically synchronizes data. This synchronization ensures that any deleted or updated data in one computer or source will be displayed ...

Sharding is a way to split data in a distributed database system. Data in each shard does not have to share resources such as CPU or memory, and can be read or written in parallel. Figure 1 is an ...

“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 ...

--pgEdge, Inc. today emerged from stealth and launched the first fully distributed database optimized for the network edge based on the standard and popular open source PostgreSQL database.

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 ...

There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed ...

A key differentiator between TiDB and other MySQL-compatible databases is TiDB’s distributed architecture. MySQL is a 23-year-old technology that was never meant to work as a distributed system.