The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, in real time and in unforeseen ways, is a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized ...

The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, are a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized for transactional workloads. While ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

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This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

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.