Database systems require data files to store the data under management. These files, or data sets, reside on storage media. So storage management should be a key part of the database operations ...

One of the most effective ways to address database performance and cost challenges is to modernize the underlying hardware infrastructure. Innovations such as flash storage, converged infrastructure ...

NoSQL database giant MongoDB Inc. has moved to acquire WiredTiger Inc., which builds a database storage engine solution, barely a month after including the technology as an option in the latest ...

The acquisition on undisclosed terms also involves WiredTiger co-founders Keith Bostic and Michael Cahill and their colleagues moving across to the open-source document database company. Bostic and ...

AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on Amazon EC2 instances or use Amazon RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability, ...

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 ...

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the ...

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has posted a draft set of APIs that Web applications could one day use to store structured content offline. The proposed standard, recently renamed as the Indexed ...