Cloud-native databases deliver agility and scale. Distributed SQL is an evolution of the database for cloud native, distributed transactions. It can implement a standard SQL interface, ease ...

Every type of database is a metaphor for the arrangement of information. The earliest mainframe databases arranged their contents in a simple, tree-like hierarchy. This had a number of drawbacks, ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had.If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

It is a database that reimagines the execution and storage layers while still allowing you, the developer, to still use familiar SQL syntax. Please join us while we walk through the architecture and ...

An introduction to NoSQL databases, and how they differ from Relational Databases; An overview of Tabular, Document, Column Oriented, ... Aleks focused himself on cloud computing and distributed ...

Distributed systems are a collection of independent computers that appear to the users of the system as a single computer. The computers in a distributed system communicate with each other using ...

Jinpeng Zhang is a database engineer on the storage team at PingCAP.. Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server ...