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 ...

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 ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle’s flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San ...

Relational databases are a key component of the software landscape. SQLite is a simple but versatile implementation with a variety of use cases. Node 22.5 introduces a node:sqlite module that ships ...

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 ...

Where in-memory databases are used (spoiler: everywhere!). Suitability of in-memory databases for microcontrollers. Risks and mitigation of data loss. How an in-memory database is different than ...

Combining the strengths of the on-disk and all-in-memory approaches to data management into one solution, eXtremeDB Fusion embedded database from McObject offers developers the flexibility to optimize ...