Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

Acquirers are starting to leverage the power of massive—and diverse—pools of information. The challenge lies in unlocking big data’s full potential. Big data has been a hot topic for years as ...

Visualizing the power of blockchain: a decentralized, transparent ledger redefining how digital transactions are recorded and verified. Let’s begin by considering a basic money transaction. When you ...

Imagine if, a decade ago, your retail business could have seen how and where consumers were adopting e-commerce. Imagine if you could have observed how adoption patterns differed by age group and by ...

Fintech and automation are critical to growing transaction-banking services in the era of Big Data. Faced with more-demanding corporate clients in a multibank environment, transaction banks have ...

Public ledger transactions, also known as on-chain transactions, entail recording data directly into a blockchain, such as Bitcoin’s on-chain data. The fact that these transactions are public and ...