The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Databases the heart of the data center, contains company’s most confidential and organized information. Thus, they are main areas for today’s advanced threats. Company must secure their data and ...

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was granted the gift of prophesy, but cursed with an inability to convince others of her predictions - a sort of unbelievable "oracle," if you like. Ironically, in the ...

Last year, we saw unification dominate database workloads. This year, scale beyond data volume is quietly emerging as a key theme. The shift is marked by explosive growth in the scale of metadata, ...

In today’s data-driven world, the exponential growth of unstructured data is a phenomenon that demands our attention. The rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has added even more ...

Sensor data and IoT applications have special requirements that might be better served by a specialized database. Here’s what to consider. The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, ...

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