When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offering.

One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

Software that stores and retrieves data in a database. It may be a self-contained program or the part of a database management system (DBMS) that performs the storage and retrieval. The actual reads ...

Redis Ltd. has acquired Speedb Ltd., the developer of a storage engine it uses to power its commercial database offerings. The company didn’t disclose the financial terms in its announcement of the ...

Document databases have long been the backbone of critical applications — now, they’re entering a new era of intelligence and capability. By embedding generative AI directly into the data layer, the ...

A zero day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Jet Database Engine has been disclosed by TrendMicro's Zero Day Initiative even though a security update is not currently available from Microsoft.

The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries. The demand for ...

Software from Borland that runs on a Windows client and unifies database access across multiple platforms. Using Borland's own IDAPI interface, it provides a middleware layer between the client and ...