“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Oracle has unveiled its latest database offering it claims will enhance agentic AI deployments and help with data sovereignty demands. The Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale ...

All modern businesses must process large amounts of data, meaning companies of all sizes have to seek solutions to get fast access, secure storage and easy management of internal and external ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...