Theemergence of non-volatile dual in-line memory modules, or NVDIMMs, addsa new tool for in-memory database durability. NVDIMMs take the form ofstandard memory sticks that plug into existing DIMM ...

Since in-memory databases utilise the server’s main memory as primary storage location, besides improvement in speed, the size and cost is significantly reduced. Traditional systems keep a lot of ...

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

But, the fact that retrieval from memory trumps disk access for performance adds nothing new to database knowledge. Traditional databases have long offered caching as a way to hold frequently-used ...

Compared to traditional databases, IMDSes are less complex. Beyond the elimination of disk I/O, in-memory database systems have fewer moving parts or interacting processes. This leads to greater ...

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 ...

However, system memory is Volatile, which means in-memory databases only conform to three out of four of the Acid model of database characteristics - atomic, consistent, isolated and durable.

What do companies see as the advantages of in-memory? For one thing there is the ability to run applications faster. By loading data in memory, data can move 1,000 times faster than the traditional ...

Most in-memory databases require a specialized calls, where ASE can be accessed through the standard T-SQL (Transact-SQL) language used to access ASE database, Thawley noted.

The new version of Sybase’s flagship database system software, released Wednesday, will be the first version that can be run entirely within working memory. Version 15.5 of the Sybase ASE ...