Cloud
Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale
Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …
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The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System
Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. …
Store
Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray
As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. …
Store
The Vast Potential For Storage In A Compute Crazed AI World
When it comes to funding rounds for high tech companies, the alphabet usually runs out somewhere around Series E. …
Store
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
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A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales
Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, in databases from multiple vendors, in disparate formats, and for new workloads like artificial intelligence. …
Cloud
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …
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Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
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Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
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Google Needs Another Database To Attack Oracle, DB2, And SQL Server Directly
Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? …