To survive in today's ultra-competitive business environment, companies have to be adaptable and be able to move quickly with the ever-changing market conditions. It's not enough to simply have a good ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...

The Microsoft Azure Incubations team recently unveiled Drasi, an innovative event-driven, open-source data processing system that takes a novel approach to tracking and processing rapidly changing ...

Taking aim at competitors including Amazon Aurora and Snowflake, Oracle has enhanced the MySQL HeatWave in-memory query accelerator in the Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service by leveraging advanced ...

Query optimization lies at the heart of modern database management systems, striving to identify the most efficient access and execution plan for a given declarative query. Traditional optimisers ...

As proposed by business consultant and author Geoffrey Moore, "Without big data, you are blind and deaf in the middle of a freeway." Data is not only an asset these days in high-stakes business. It is ...

The three features of adaptive query processing can make SQL Server 2017 significantly faster at processing your workload. Not only that, but they also provide significant improvements without needing ...