Oracle has released the first update to the TimesTen in-memory database it acquired a few months ago, and plans to promote the product to a broader audience of enterprise customers, it announced ...

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 ...

The new version of Sybase’s flagship database system software, released Wednesday, will be the first version that can be run entirely within working memory. Version 15.5 of the Sybase ASE (Adaptive ...

To survive in today's ultra-competitive business environment, companies have to be adaptable and be able to move quickly with the ever-changing market conditions. It's not enough to simply have a good ...

Where in-memory databases are used (spoiler: everywhere!). Suitability of in-memory databases for microcontrollers. Risks and mitigation of data loss. How an in-memory database is different than ...

DragonflyDB Inc., a startup with an in-memory database designed to speed up enterprise applications, today announced that it has secured $21 million in funding. The startup raised the capital over two ...

Traditionally, data in tables has been stored in row format. This is good for operations in which the whole row and many columns are accessed—as long as there are few rows. It’s not ideal for many ...