One of the great things about the IT industry is that there’s no shortage of innovative companies coming up with a wide range of products to address niche problems. Today’s article covers a compendium ...

Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but users may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool. At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog ...

For the database world, the future looks extremely challenging—and, even more, exceedingly promising. Looking ahead over the next few years, organizations will be relying on their databases in ways ...

There are many popular, low-cost ways to toss text onto the Web, from blogs and Google Docs to social networking sites. Likewise, you can find a lot of sites where you can post photos and videos. But ...

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) has launched a broad suite of Fusion Agentic Applications that use coordinated AI agents across HR, ...

Have you ever searched for something online, only to feel frustrated when the results didn’t quite match what you had in mind? Maybe you were looking for an image similar to one you had, or trying to ...

This is something we've been discussing at work, and I wonder if there's any formal theory or other approaches we might be missing... It is quite common to have a concept of "state" in a database ...

Updates and deletes remove history that is often desirable to keep. It is not only possible but practical to write a database application that preserves that history. Software is a funny business. For ...