Relational calculus. Query processing and optimization. Transaction processing: failure, recovery, and concurrency. Database security. Logic-based systems. Parallel ...

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 faster, you ...

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Business happens in real time but many business systems don’t. It’s time to move past client-server databases, data warehouses, and batch processes. Businesses are 24/7. This includes everything from ...

There is a perception among many that blockchain and distributed ledger technology are the same thing. This is not quite the case. This article explains the difference between blockchain and ...

Palo Alto-based hybrid database player Actian is announcing today the transformation of its Zen Embedded Database for use in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, both on edge devices and gateways.

ProVUE Panorama is a remarkable database application that we’ve been following in TidBITS for over 15 years. You may already know from my in-depth description (in “Seeing the Light with Panorama“, ...

Recently, an industry commentator suggested that client/server, as it has existed over the past two decades, may be in its twilight stage. Is this truly the case? Most enterprises rely on ...