TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving ...

Some graph database vendors are enhancing their data storage architecture to preserve data locality. Data locality means that data values for a given record or a given column are stored closely ...

Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD storage option that is 80% cheaper than the existing ...

ExaGrid, the industry's only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutability for ...

The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage (i.e. setups that move data between high- and low-cost storage ...