Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

Oracle Autonomous Database has been available since last March, letting early adopters get their hands on it. At a time when data is increasingly seen as a company’s most important asset, the ...

If you close your eyes and imagine that you're about to start your digitally transforming cloud journey, then the words of Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, CTO and executive chairman at today's ...

Existing database systems employ an eager transaction processing scheme – that is, upon receiving a transaction request, the system executes all the operations entailed in running the transaction ...

Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction processing database service, finally bringing its key database technology into the cloud. The company, which has been around for over four decades ...

Typically, most applications consist of both batch and online workloads. This is true even today, when most of our attention has turned to online and web-based interaction. Sure, online activities are ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

Recent advances in graphics processing units (GPUs) have opened a new frontier in query processing and database systems. Leveraging the massively parallel architecture of GPUs, modern database engines ...