At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system ...

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...

Many cloud-based parallel relational systems have a greatly reduced efficiency for specific database mutation (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) operations, which can cause a problem in certain use cases.

This is evidenced by the adoption of the “hybrid cloud” terminology as well as the multi-platform nature of SQL Server 2017. BT InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter ...

Google Cloud just unveiled a new edition of Cloud SQL, its enterprise-ready, fully managed database service for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads. Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus, ...

Google runs foundation model-powered semantic operators alongside traditional relational operators in the database engine. “When SQL first came out in 1973 it was all about, hey, we want a ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure.

Google is hosting a version of its Cloud Next conference in Tokyo this week, and it’s putting the focus squarely on tweaking its databases for AI workloads (because at this point in 2024, AI is ...