The thick client is making a comeback. Here’s how next-generation local databases like PGlite and RxDB are bringing ...

Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it. Improving ...

IT departments will get two new database options in the next week, with Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp. each refreshing their data management platforms. IBM, in Armonk, N.Y., announced on Friday DB2 UDB ...

Developers have a strong affinity for deploying their applications on open-source database engines, such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers these ...

Pervasive does not offer parallel-server processing typically available in enterprise database servers, but rather has created a database that completely embeds inside an OEM application and is ...

A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

WordPress 6.1, scheduled for November 2022, will feature a “massive improvement to database performance” thanks to new post query caching. This new feature promises to make WordPress websites perform ...

When non-DBAs think about what it is that a DBA does, performance monitoring and tuning are usually the first tasks that come to mind. This should not be surprising. Almost anyone who has come in ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are increasingly integral to database management, driving new levels of automation and intelligence in how data systems are administered. Modern ...

Azure HorizonDB introduces cloud-native PostgreSQL with disaggregated compute and storage for faster scaling and failover. HorizonDB’s Rust-based storage engine improves security, reliability, and ...