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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With data volumes spiraling out of control, companies are searching for less expensive and more efficient storage technologies. The most common approaches for storing data have been with disk and ...

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Is it possible to replace Linux as the heart of serverless cloud computing services? That's exactly the intention of a startup consisting of developers from the open source Postgres database project ...

The landscape for database management systems is changing more rapidly these days than it has since the earliest days of the relational DBMS. Not only do we have an onslaught of NoSQL database systems ...

More than 400 million terabytes of digital data are generated every day, according to market researcher Statista, including data created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide. By 2028 the total ...

In an industrial control system, integration of an IMDS within a controller supports a ‘flattened’ control system architecture in which data is stored and processed, and some control decisions occur, ...