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In-Memory Boosts Oracle OLTP By 2X, Analytics By 1000X
With the lion's share of the relational database market underpinning the systems of record humming along in datacenters, Oracle cannot afford to let its rivals get too far ahead ...Full Article
Cloud Foundry Adds CumuLogic Database Service Broker
The Cloud Foundry Foundation's ecosystem continues to expand with the addition of a database service broker that would help bolster the cloud initiative's backend data services. CumuLogic, a private ...Full Article
Fusion-io Flash Pushes SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Further
There is no such thing as too much performance improvement. Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 relational database is shipping, and enterprises are now trying to figure out how to best ...Full Article
Microsoft Turbocharges Transactions With ‘Hekaton’ In-Memory
Microsoft is joining the in-memory database party with the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2014 and its "Hekaton" feature. The new SQL engine has been optimized for in-memory ...Full Article
ClearDB Accelerates Databases By 10X With Project Halo
Like many companies, ClearDB has tried a bunch of things to get itself going. Having found some success as a provider of tools that make MySQL databases redundant, more ...Full Article
Using Flash To Scale In As Well As Up And Out
When people talk about scale in the IT industry these days, more times than not they mean one of two things. The first is called scale up, and this ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters Accelerate Databases
In-memory databases are going mainstream to accelerate analytics, and if the success of SAP's HANA in-memory database is any guide, then it looks like companies will be looking at ...Full Article
SGI To Paint SAP HANA In-Memory Appliance UltraViolet
Systems maker SGI and application and database software maker SAP are teaming up to create a big, bad system for running SAP's HANA in-memory database. The partnership will, says ...Full Article
Oracle Gives Exadata Clusters Hardware Makeover
Customers who are in the middle of buying Exadata database clusters from Oracle had better put a hold on those deals and check out the new Exadata X4-2 machines ...Full Article
‘Robot Brain’ Goes Live in the Cloud
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/digital_brain.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" />European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database to help robots learn about what they encounter in the ...Full Article
