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There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

The frightful fall season of Halloween is upon us. This means spooky things are on the rise. It’s right to be wary of things that bump at night or in the day when looking at the tangle of legacy data ...

Secure, event-native and AI-driven cloud architecture are the ingredients of the next generation of cloud architecture. These ...