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How can these decentralized and distributed databases be applied? The databases accelerate the communication between different parties in the production lane. Let’s consider the following example. In ...

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What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of regulations ...

Distributed ledger tech lets databases work across many nodes without central control. Nodes must agree on updates, making ledgers secure and tamper-proof. Public ledgers are open to all, while ...

Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single ...

To make productive use of the ever-growing volumes of data, businesses and organizations need the right database systems to manage all that data and make it available for transactional and analytical ...

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