Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...

Brave Software developers have created a new privacy-centric database query system called FrodoPIR that retrieves data from servers without disclosing the content of user queries. Brave plans to use ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Serverless database developer Fauna Inc. today released a query language inspired by TypeScript along with new web and local development capabilities and a declarative database schema. The company ...

More than 400 million terabytes of digital data are generated every day, according to market researcher Statista, including data created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide. By 2028 the total ...

A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space. The total volume of data created or replicated globally reached 64.2 ...