The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...

Citus Data has launched CitusDB for Hadoop, a service that can process petabytes of data within seconds. The offering shows once again that the new class of analytics databases that can analyze ...

Fujitsu today announced that, in an industry first, they have developed complex event processing technology designed for use with cloud technology that employs distributed and parallel processing.

Data intensive applications that rely heavily on huge databases waste a lot of time in searching and retrieval especially if there is a single server retrieving data from the database. This paper ...

Driven by the rapid hardware development of parallel CPU/GPU architectures, the authors have witnessed emerging relational query processing techniques and implementations on those parallel ...

The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

Database administrators and developers converged on Seattle for this week's annual Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference, where Microsoft is talking up its recently released SQL ...

Query processing and optimisation form the backbone of relational database management, transforming high‐level declarative requests into efficient execution strategies. The pipeline begins with ...

When Oracle Corp. acquired the rights to MySQL through its purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, the company had a decision to make. Should it pursue a set of partnerships to retool the database ...