It involves sharing resources and processing power among several workstations through distributed computing and databases. The key components of distributed systems are multiple nodes ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...