Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison explained the advantages of Oracle Autonomous Database by comparing use of this new technology to learning how to drive a self-driving car. “You know ...

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 ...

Vendia revealed it has raised $15.5 million to advance development of a Vendia Share service that enables IT teams to share data and code, as well as processing transactions between third parties.

A new benchmark has been launched by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) to enable measurement and comparison of big data systems. According to the TPC, the benchmark – TPCx-HS – ...

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 ...

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help ...

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 ...

Updating the appropriate databases as soon as an order, payment or other transaction is made. Transaction processing enables anyone in the organization to obtain an account balance, inventory balance ...

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 ...

Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals ...

As you explore how to create new opportunities with AI, it’s crucial to first take a close look at your data architecture.