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.

So what’s the difference? At a fundamental level, distributed computing and concurrent programming are simply descriptive terms that refer to ways of getting work done at runtime (as is parallel ...

Distributed query processing: a query—or request to read large data sets—enters at a client level and is processed and optimized on the global level.

Aerospike has announced version 8.0 of its distributed multi-modal database, bringing support for distributed ACID transactions. This enables large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applicati ...

Version 8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Building on its enterprise-grade operations and best-in-class efficiency, ...

Today, Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, announced it is making a strategic investment in Seattle-based Expanso, a startup looking to power distributed data processing.