Startup pgEdge, with a fully distributed database for use in the cloud and at the network edge, emerged from stealth with $9M in seed funding.

PostgreSQL users who were considering adopting a distributed NoSQL database like MongoDB or Cassandra to gain scalability benefits for big data may want to think twice about that approach following ...

Database as a Service is an emerging area of cloud computing. GenieDB wants to win in that market by offering a version of MySQL that provides continuous availability using a geographically ...

Industry analyst and former IT executive Matt Kimball digs into the technical and operational details of Oracle's new Globally Distributed Autonomous Database.

Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of ...

Apache ShardingSphere can transform any database to a distributed database system, while enhancing it with functions such as sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features, etc.

In a distributed database, the data systems are held in different physical locations but can be accessed by all computers on a system. Processing is also shared among the many nodes—a ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

A distributed SQL database is “lightweight, portable and fast for the cloud, but still reliable and familiar so that application developers can use it for multiple workloads,” he added.

Learn about Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the decentralized network architecture that enhances data security and ...