Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...