“With the launch of FoundationDB we are delivering the first commercial distributed NoSQL database with high performance ACID transactions and the first to offer true data model flexibility,” said ...

This week on the New Tech Forum, DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth offers an incisive essay on a key difference in relational and NoSQL mindsets. Bosworth has spent many years in the database and ...

FoundationDB has launched its new ACID-compliant NoSQL database platform, the first to combine NoSQL scalablity with high-performance multi-key ACID transactions across all data within the database, ...

It appears that distributed, SQL and NoSQL database engines are all the rage for extreme transaction processing or Big Data applications. Some of these systems trade distributed performance for ...

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NoSQL databases have made it possible to store more data faster and cheaper than ever before. Web giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook have come to depend on them in a big way. But they have some ...

The folks behind Apache Flink just delivered something you may not have realized you needed: ACID guarantees in a stream processing framework. According to data Artisans, its new Streaming Ledger ...

STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starcounter today released the world’s fastest database. Based on the company’s patent-pending VMDBMS technology, which is more than 100 times faster than traditional ...

Actian is describing the newly announced Hadoop Edition of its analytics software as the first platform with full SQL support designed to run entirely natively on the distributed big-data framework.

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