Bharat Kumar Dokka is a distinguished Associate Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in database product ...

In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help ...

CockroachDB is a geo-distributed SQL database. By distributed, we mean it's horizontally scalable to grow with your application. It's geo-distributed to handle a data center failure.

1. Introduction: Two Evolutionary Paths to Data Democratization In the wave of digital transformation for enterprises, data analysis capability has become the core of competitiveness. However, ...

It’s rare in the world of software to see a single architecture dominate as comprehensively as the relational database model. The relational database (RDBMS)—actually a hybrid of Codd’s relational ...

More from Microsoft's lead SQL architect about how telemetry data is helping the company deliver regular, highly requested and targeted feature improvements at a massive scale.

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...