Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

The lesson learned from the Pathfinder incident is therefore timeless: concurrency is not a free performance booster but a ...

Clustrix, a provider of a scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, has just released ClustrixDB as a software download. ClustrixDB allows companies to run ad hoc queries and create reports on ...