More details emerged Wednesday about SAP’s plans to build new in-memory database appliances for high-speed analytics, which could set the vendor up against platforms like Oracle’s Exadata. SAP is ...

The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

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 ...

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering ...