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There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

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 with the ...

In a new book titled Next Generation Databases: NoSQL, NewSQL, and Big Data, Guy Harrison shares what every data professional needs to know about the future of databases in a world of NoSQL and big ...

With the rapid success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other emerging types of AI solutions in the last several years, organizations have been scrambling to adopt artificial intelligence by “any means ...

A headless data architecture means no longer having to coordinate multiple copies of data and being free to use whatever processing or query engine is most suitable for the job. Here’s how it works.