Query processing and user interaction form the cornerstone of modern database systems, providing the framework for translating high‐level user queries into efficient, actionable operations. As data ...

The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

Among the messages that Oracle is putting out for its flagship database, adding new access paths for developers has become just as important as adding new data types. This month, Oracle is launching ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. For the last two years, we’ve been writing about Intel Optane persistent memory, knowing that scores of ...

Oracle Corp’s. Exadata X9M online transaction processing database is like an automobile on the professional racing circuit. Every few months, Oracle takes the race car into the garage for fine tuning ...

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the ...

Every few weeks, or so it seems, a new database is added to an ever-growing and increasingly diverse list. In addition to the familiar relational databases there are analytical, transactional, ...

VoltDB, LLC, has begun shipping the VoltDB OLTP database management system that is intended to offer faster transaction processing capabilities due to lower overhead. VoltDB, developed under the ...

I want to develop a tool to parse and break up binary files containing a variety of different types of data items. The size of these files can very from a few thousand entries to millions. My initial ...