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 ...

For a long time, companies have been using relational databases (DB) to manage data. However, with the increasing use of ...

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.

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 ...

To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a dif­ferent animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have ...

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 ...

In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and secures -- telemetry data from Azure SQL Database customers to improve its engineering ...

Transactions in the latest offering are supported through Couchbase’s SQL-like language, along with new features that narrowed the gap between NoSQL and relational databases.