If you've ever gotten a more spacious closet, a larger desk, or even a bigger house, you've probably been surprised at how quickly it fills up and no longer seems quite big enough. Business computers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL offers low latency and ultra high availability for applications running at or near the network edge and across cloud regions For application developers and database ...

A distributed cloud database is a database in which operational data is spread across different physical locations—for example, across different data centers, across hybrid clouds (such as private and ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

Gaurav Bansal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber with 12+ years of experience in scalable, high-performance distributed systems. Every new tech business today builds distributed systems and ...

Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single ...

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