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NitroSecurity Inc. and MySQL AB said yesterday that they will jointly develop a storage engine for the open-source MySQL database that is optimized for very large high-performance databases. The ...

When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

Software that stores and retrieves data in a database. It may be a self-contained program or the part of a database management system (DBMS) that performs the storage and retrieval. The actual reads ...

Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offering.

A few weeks ago, it was reported that MotherDuck, the company commercializing the lightweight database platform DuckDB, was in talks to raise new capital from VC firm Felicis. Those talks went well, ...

Document databases have long been the backbone of critical applications — now, they’re entering a new era of intelligence and capability. By embedding generative AI directly into the data layer, the ...

Redis Ltd. has acquired Speedb Ltd., the developer of a storage engine it uses to power its commercial database offerings. The company didn’t disclose the financial terms in its announcement of the ...

Windows JET Database Engine continues to be vulnerable to remote code execution bug after Microsoft released a patch in the October security updates rollout. The vulnerability, now identified as ...

What a URL! Database.com sounds like a service with grand ambitions of becoming the back end for the entire Internet, a notion that showman extraordinaire Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, would do ...

Software from Borland that runs on a Windows client and unifies database access across multiple platforms. Using Borland's own IDAPI interface, it provides a middleware layer between the client and ...