When Databricks claimed to have cracked an age-old database problem, it came with a clear marketing message: "One data, zero compromises, zero copies." Inevitably, that led engineers to search for ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

Google has updated its managed database service — Spanner — with a new columnar engine to help enterprises run complex analytical queries on real-time transactional data for better decision-making.

Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata ...

The system is based on server hardware from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle is in the process of acquiring for $7.4 billion. That apparently leaves Hewlett-Packard, which provided the hardware for the ...

TransLattice, a provider of a geographically distributed relational database management system for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, has announced the availability of a release candidate for ...