TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

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Digital transformation. Infrastructure modernization. Global data center demands. All these forces and more are driving enterprises around the world to seek out next generation cloud-based ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

It’s rare in the world of software to see a single architecture dominate as comprehensively as the relational database model. The relational database (RDBMS)—actually a hybrid of Codd’s relational ...

Robin has held senior executive positions at VERITAS, Mercury, and most recently, at HP’s $3 billion portfolio of IT Management, Information Management, and Application Security products as VP/General ...

In the meantime, the big question for data leaders is where to implement this logic. The market has split into two ...

An open, services-oriented approach has clear advantages for building modular and scalable applications. We should take the same approach to our data. Data analytics solutions are continuing to emerge ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...