As companies choose the right database to build their services on for cloud-native services, the idea of a distributed database is a hot topic. Cockroach Labs Inc., which offers a distributed SQL ...

It's not a coincidence -- it's a trend. Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database is getting a hefty amount of funding. This time, it's Yugabyte. Yugabyte, a company founded by Facebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Distributed SQL database, such as CockroachDB, delivers effortless and elastic cloud scale while guaranteeing transactions. It is a database that reimagines the execution and storage layers while ...

Flexible, expanding database services is the best solution for large-user-base companies that are scaling as they rapidly accelerate cloud and digital, says a database veteran. SkySQL and Xpand, the ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MariaDB ® Corporation today announced a database challenge to any company evaluating distributed SQL offerings. Compare Xpand, MariaDB’s distributed ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MariaDB® Corporation today announced that its distributed SQL database MariaDB Xpand has won Foundry’s (formerly IDG Communications) InfoWorld 2022 ...

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At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region ...

Yugabyte, the company behind the open-source distributed SQL database, YugabyteDB, announced that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has published a benchmark report on the YugabyteDB database.