Through his rigorous research and commitment to education, Akaash Vishal Hazarika is not just solving today's problems, he is ...

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“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 ...

Imagine you want to withdraw some cash from an ATM. You expect it to show your account balance correctly and process your request quickly. However, network delays make it hard for the system to meet ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region ...

The relational database management system (RDBMS) held a stranglehold on enterprise data management from the mid-1980s through to the mid-2000s. For 25 years the question was never “should I use a ...

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Prior to 2008, whatever your database question, the answer was always,“Oracle”—or sometimes, “MySQL” or, “SQL Server.” The relational database management system (RDBMS) model—really a triumvirate of ...