Benchmarks are a critical part of the IT industry. They allow us to measure technological progress, enable buyers to compare offerings from multiple vendors and help vendors improve their products. In ...

The latest release of the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is now shipping with performance and scalability improvements for real-time online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, and new ...

Aaron Segesman is an imaginative database architect with broad technical experience from nearly 20 years of work within the data space. His specialties include Data warehouse design, OLTP database ...

VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday. VoltDB was co-founded by longtime database industry figure Michael Stonebraker. Its origin ...

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The system is based on server hardware from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle is in the process of acquiring for $7.4 billion. That apparently leaves Hewlett-Packard, which provided the hardware for the ...

The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Plan? What Plan? Lack of planning was an oft-repeated theme. Poor planning is the fountain from which many other problems spring- The failure to adopt a ...

On Tuesday, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will debut what Oracle is calling "the world's first OLTP (online transaction processing) database machine," incorporating Sun server and data storage hardware and ...