Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. Because for certain workloads, including vector search and retrieval ...

When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice for an OS is Linux. A team from MIT and Sandia ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT organizations are always chasing better performance. This involves monitoring, tuning, and improving all aspects of the IT infrastructure, encompassing servers, networks, applications, desktops, ...