Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

The adoption of in-memory computing continues to accelerate. Mature solutions enable organizations to obtain the database processing speed and scale they require for their digital transformation and ...

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Aerospike Inc., the company leading the power of real-time data to meet the demands of the “Right Now Economy,” is announcing the latest iteration of its real-time, multi-model database, Aerospike ...

Traditionally, data in tables has been stored in row format. This is good for operations in which the whole row and many columns are accessed—as long as there are few rows. It’s not ideal for many ...

Store managers can receive real-time information on sales and make immediate decisions regarding inventory, merchandising and promotions using SAP’s High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) software ...

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering ...