If you are like many people, your current application environment or experience lies mainly with a single monolithic database tier running on a single server. You probably use a simple replication ...

Databases are a lot like programming languages: there’s a great variety to choose from, they have wildly different programming and query interfaces, and there’s a wide gap in available features. And ...

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Amazon just added a new cloud computing service to its suite of Amazon Web Services, a distributed database called DynamoDB. Web applications can spike suddenly in demand or grow so big that they tax ...

Expanding its portfolio of Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, Google has announced that it is adding a new database service called Cloud Spanner to its public cloud platform. This service ...

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 with the ...

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