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 ...

Partitioning of servers in the data centers of its top customers is putting pressure on Oracle, which is making a number of moves to cope with the trend, experts say. Earlier this month, Oracle ...

When Erik Benner gets his hooks into new technology, his curiosity just will not let go. So much so that when astronomy caught his fancy, he didn’t merely buy a telescope, he ended up with a ...

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 ...