As processor speeds increase, the need to reduce latency between the CPU and data becomes more pressing. The answer to that need has seen the rise of local flash storage and PCIe flash solutions. But ...

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Baer is a principal analyst covering Big Data at Ovum. Big Data is getting bigger, and Fast Data is getting faster because of the ...

The expert team at Freeform Dynamics offer news and views on the latest hot topics, and pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and meaningful research studies. IoT Back to Basics, chapter 4: ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the fight to IBM, Microsoft, and SAP in the burgeoning in-memory database market with a new option the company says can deliver dramatic performance boosts without ...

As every DBA should know, DBMS data is typically persisted using disk storage. So the data is stored on disk and when it is later read or modified it has to be accessed and changed on disk. To ...

Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. Although the authors of so many pieces were using the term with ...

Last week, application-performance monitoring service provider New Relic launched an offering that allows customers to mine its operational data for business intelligence. The new beta offering, ...