In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

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The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

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Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications. Cloud Spanner joins Google’s other cloud-based database services ...

Today’s applications—including enterprise applica­tions—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless ...

Developers can now leverage real-time data using standard ANSI SQL, with new functionality including elastic storage separated from compute, strict-serializability, active replication and horizontal ...

pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL offers low latency and ultra high availability for applications running at or near the network edge and across cloud regions For application developers and database ...

The distributed version of the open source, object-relational database system is available as an add-on, dubbed EDB Extreme High Availability, for EDB Enterprise and Standard plans, the company said.