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Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

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The world of mobile apps, online retailers and social platforms dominate much of the Internet and our online lives. Every day we sign up for a service or create a profile that stores a digital ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The buzz around the NoSQL movement in the past year has ...

MariaDB, originally best known as a fork of the open source MySQL database, has been gradually adding new features and architectural changes that have helped it establish its own identity and typecast ...

Concurrency arises whenever multiple clients, users, or parts of an application read and write the same data at the same time. Transactions make managing concurrency simple for developers. The main ...