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The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries. The demand for ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

Developers have a strong affinity for deploying their applications on open-source database engines, such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers these ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--pganalyze (Duboce Labs, Inc.), the leader in Postgres performance optimization and observability, today announced the new pganalyze Index Advisor™, based on the ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

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 ...

Redis Ltd. has acquired Speedb Ltd., the developer of a storage engine it uses to power its commercial database offerings. The company didn’t disclose the financial terms in its announcement of the ...

WordPress 6.1, scheduled for November 2022, will feature a “massive improvement to database performance” thanks to new post query caching. This new feature promises to make WordPress websites perform ...

The database industry has been a master of keeping the status quo. Even though business software customers have long suffered from poor performance and high license costs, the industry has been able ...