The exponential growth of digital data is being driven by a number of factors, including the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) and an increased reliance on complex analytics extracted from extremely ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

Healthcare organizations are awash in data. But not every health system is able to utilize its data in ways that yield actionable insights or opportunities for performance improvement. Without a clear ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

The institutions winning today aren't winning because they have smarter traders or better customer service. They're winning because they've solved a fundamental architecture problem: how to turn ...

IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for ...

In an era where data is a strategic asset, organizations often falter not because they lack data—but because their architecture doesn’t scale with their needs. Leaders must design data ecosystems that ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

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