If you've ever gotten a more spacious closet, a larger desk, or even a bigger house, you've probably been surprised at how quickly it fills up and no longer seems quite big enough. Business computers ...

In a recent article, “The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era,” I explored why enterprises are moving beyond a single, centralized data center to a fabric of compact, powerful data centers ...

Oracle is releasing its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, a fully managed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service that offers built-in, cutting-edge capabilities that redefine how ...

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Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...