Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata ...

Benchmarks are a critical part of the IT industry. They allow us to measure technological progress, enable buyers to compare offerings from multiple vendors and help vendors improve their products. In ...

Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

Oracle already delivered what may be the fastest OLTP database machine ever built when it brought the Exadata X8M to market just over a year ago. However, today the company bested itself when it ...

VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday. VoltDB was co-founded by longtime database industry figure Michael Stonebraker. Its origin ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of big data management and enterprise analytics software, today released its 2019 AnzoGraph Benchmark Report that arms organizations ...

One of the reasons that the University of California at Berkeley was been a hotbed of software technology back in the 1970s and 1980s is Michael Stonebraker, who was one of the pioneers in relational ...