In the latest refresh of its managed public cloud service, Cloudera has announced preview of a new operational database service that updates, for the cloud, its implementation of HBase. The service, ...

In the first century, Greek professor Heron of Alexandria created a coin-operated machine to dispense holy water. Back then, visitors to the city temples took more holy water than they paid for. His ...

Couchbase Capella, based on the next-generation Couchbase database, gives customers and partners a way to more quickly spin up a cloud database for developing mission-critical applications. Couchbase ...

The database software market has seen plenty of disruption in recent years brought about by the rise of cloud computing. Newer players like MongoDB and Couchbase have emerged, and it's easier than ...

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It doesn’t take a business genius to realize that poor product performance, or in some cases, product failure, can lead to customer dissatisfaction and a loss of sales. According to MIT, nearly 30,000 ...

A computer in a network that is dedicated to database storage and retrieval. It holds the database management system (see DBMS) and the databases. Upon requests from the client machines, it searches ...

Reliable, secure, self-service access to trustworthy, clean data is at the center of alleviating the data teams burdened by data requests. While self-service data access is straightforward in theory, ...

Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the "Business Critical" tier. If organizations ...