Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...

Virtualization and private clouds have delivered hardware savings in a big way for most enterprises. Software savings, however, are proving more elusive, and that’s been particularly true when it ...

Some people choose databases from Oracle Corp. because of their cutting-edge features, but Steve Helle, chief technology officer at Denver area database marketing firm NextAction Corp., wanted ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...