To understand how in-memory technology translates into faster business processes, listen to Larry Ellison. When Oracle ’s CEO introduced the new Oracle Database In-Memory option on June 10, he gave ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

MemSQL, a distributor of in-memory database technology for real-time analytics, has introduced MemSQL v3.0. which combines an in-memory row store with a new highly compressed column store. The ...

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...