As processor speeds increase, the need to reduce latency between the CPU and data becomes more pressing. The answer to that need has seen the rise of local flash storage and PCIe flash solutions. But ...

CEOs know that raw speed brings business advantages. Blink-of-an-eye analytics and split-second transactions make companies more agile and better able to engage today’s on-the-go customers. But how do ...

The adoption of in-memory computing continues to accelerate. Mature solutions enable organizations to obtain the database processing speed and scale they require for their digital transformation and ...

The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

I’m going to be blunt. When it comes to business analytics strategy these days, Big Data is hogging the spotlight. This isn’t to imply that Big Data technologies aren’t important—in fact, we’ve only ...

With data volumes spiraling out of control, companies are searching for less expensive and more efficient storage technologies. The most common approaches for storing data have been with disk and ...

Jeff Chang and Steve Graves talk about in memory databases including McObject's eXtremeDB, an IMDS product family designed specifically for embedded systems. In-memory databases have long been used to ...

To survive in today's ultra-competitive business environment, companies have to be adaptable and be able to move quickly with the ever-changing market conditions. It's not enough to simply have a good ...

How do we store data? Often, in database systems, but traditional database systems might not be a great fit in the big data era, according to MIT Professor Samuel Madden in the online course “Tackling ...

Last week, application-performance monitoring service provider New Relic launched an offering that allows customers to mine its operational data for business intelligence. The new beta offering, ...