Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of regulations ...

To boost transparency for re-exported drugs, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has created a new publicly available online register for parallel distribution notices. Parallel distribution, often ...

Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

Sarvesh Kumar Gupta is a seasoned data engineering architect specializing in globally distributed database systems, based in Saint Louis, Missouri. With a solid educational foundation, including a ...

The team received the Test of Time Award for their paper, GeePS: Scalable deep learning on distributed GPUs with a GPU-specialized parameter server. The paper addresses the challenges of scaling deep ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

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 ...