MariaDB plc today said it will make its Xpand distributed database management system available to PostgreSQL users in addition to its own customer base. “Our vision is to take databases to new heights ...

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool. At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog ...

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In an age where data has emerged as the new oil, organizations across industries are racing to refine how they collect, manage, and extract insights from it. At the core of this revolution lies cloud ...

In this paper, we describe the solutions developed to address key technical challenges encountered while building a distributed database system that can smoothly handle demanding real-time workloads ...

pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL offers low latency and ultra high availability for applications running at or near the network edge and across cloud regions For application developers and database ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

The basic premise of this document is simple: to explain why distributed transactional databases are the Holy Grail of database management systems (DBMS). The promise of these systems is to provide on ...