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Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

The world of mobile apps, online retailers and social platforms dominate much of the Internet and our online lives. Every day we sign up for a service or create a profile that stores a digital ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by Apple. That all changed Thursday when Apple announced that the core of ...