Today you see application logic kept rigorously outside the database mainly in science applications because the technologies the RDBMS market demands are defined by the PC community view, but ...

Availability is often a key criterion for transactional databases. While not every application needs to run 24/7 with 99.999% availability, some do.

Application resources are easier to scale. Now, before I get a lot of database engineers hounding me on Twitter saying, “That’s exactly what those features are for!” — or a lot of ...

Database leader Oracle Corp. is the world's second largest software company in the multi-billion dollar software development market with revenues in excess of $38 billion and a market ...

There are obvious exceptions, with communication tools and peer-to-peer (P2P) being the most noteworthy. Skype is not a true database application, but rather a tool to communicate by sending data ...

Specifically, an ideal database architecture would: Support a tunable consistency model which allows for strict RDBMS-style ACID transactions, Dynamo-style eventual consistency, or any point between.; ...

These are the applications that your organization depends on, and you can’t put their availability at risk. Creating a High Availability Strategy. IT teams need to remember that a database server is ...