It is relatively easy for a database on a single server to conform to all four ACID properties; it’s a bit harder to implement for a distributed database. NoSQL databases, introduced around 2009 ...

In a distributed database, the data systems are held in different physical locations but can be accessed by all computers on a system. Processing is also shared among the many nodes—a ...

Realizing opportunity at the edge with a distributed cloud database Your email has been sent The hype around edge computing is growing, and rightfully so. By bringing compute and storage closer to ...

While sharding is an effective way to build a distributed database environment, there can be downsides. The first is application performance, or latency. If an application request originating in ...

Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of ...