The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built ...
It was just last week that Fedora Linux 18 "Spherical Cow" made its official debut, but since then the Red Hat-supported distribution has been all over the news for a variety of reasons, not all of them complimentary. First came the news ...
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The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market, but users can expect it to become even more prevalent over the next couple of years, ...
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Responding to a growing user base of online service providers, VoltDB has outfitted its namesake in-memory database management system with additional tools to communicate with other technologies usually found in a Web applications stack. ...
High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will feature the ability to host database tables ...
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2012 was the year of big data.2011 had been a good year for the hyped concept,too,and 2013 is more than likely to see a continued glut of big data discourse in the IT market. But there are other themes in this collection of top 10 ...
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In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will feature the ability to host database tables ...
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The Oracle OpenWorld Conference 2012 opened today at the Moscone Exhibition Centre, San Francisco. The five day affair began today with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison who began by thanking the company’s 390,000 customers across the ...
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When customers buy Microsoft SQL Server 2008 retail products, they will receive a free tablet. Depending on order size, customers will have their choice of one of the following: iPad Mini, Microsoft Surface, Google Nexus 7, or Amazon Kindle ...
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Daniel Austin,Paypal's chief architect,has claimed that big data is a scam"most of the time",stating that relational database tools can almost always solve supposed big data problems. Further reading Oracle announces IaaS ...
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