A distributed ledger is a database that serves the purpose of recording various transactions. Similar to the way e-transactions and digital banking apps have transformed the way consumers spend money, ...

Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

Cary Breese, CEO, and Sumeet Sheokand, CTO, of GenieDB came by to introduce me to their company and their Database as a Service offering. Their demo of a distributed database running in three ...

As cloud computing matures there’s no doubt that much more emphasis will be placed on the elasticity of the data deployed across global networks of cloud computing platforms. Today, what we have are ...

Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of regulations ...

“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...

Fauna, a database whose founders came from Twitter, is adding an important capability for enterprises seeking to operate global databases; a new "region groups" feature that enables enterprises to ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says Microsoft has ...