Cloud data warehousing offers several potential advantages – the most important being resource elasticity. The demands made on a data warehouse vary enormously and a scalable cloud environment is an excellent solution to demand variability. All the big suppliers are engaged in this market, but some innovative solutions come from new players such as BitYota […]
A variety of MySQL cloud solutions exist – some are fully managed and others simply act as host infrastructure – with shades of grey in between. There are also suppliers such as ScaleDB who provide MySQL technology for very high performance and scalability in a cloud environment. Here is a list of 8 such DBaaS […]
In-memory databases perform most of their operations on data stored in computer memory. Many products support hybrid modes where some data is stored in memory and other data stored on disk. For persistence data is usually written back to disk at some point, although this too is becoming faster as SSD is increasingly used. Performance is […]
Embeddable in-memory database are typically used in devices such as set top boxes, telecoms equipment and PC based applications. SQLite is the most widely used free product, and Microsoft SQL Server Compact is also free and often used in Windows applications. McObject’s eXtremeDB in-Memory Database System embedded database is its core product: a fast database […]
In-memory databases are characterised by speed and the ability to perform complex processing at very high volumes. They have become feasible because of the low cost of memory and large addressable memory spaces. Several better known ones are listed below. Aerospike NoSQL database is a open source, clustered and distributed database optimized for reliable, high […]