In an industrial control system, integration of an IMDS within a controller supports a ‘flattened’ control system architecture in which data is stored and processed, and some control decisions occur, ...

Last week, application-performance monitoring service provider New Relic launched an offering that allows customers to mine its operational data for business intelligence. The new beta offering, ...

Oracle on Monday announced an in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c that will accelerate analytics, data warehousing, reporting and online transaction processing for Oracle in-memory applications.

A database that resides in RAM. An entire database is copied from storage to main memory and remains there for processing. Today's computers support terabytes of RAM, and because RAM is considerably ...

To survive in today's ultra-competitive business environment, companies have to be adaptable and be able to move quickly with the ever-changing market conditions. It's not enough to simply have a good ...

In-memory databases and grids have entered the enterprise mainstream. New offerings from pure-play in-memory database providers as well as the large relational database management systems vendors are ...

How do we store data? Often, in database systems, but traditional database systems might not be a great fit in the big data era, according to MIT Professor Samuel Madden in the online course “Tackling ...

Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) is a widely employed concurrency control mechanism, as it allows for execution modes where readers never block writers. However, most systems implement only ...

As processor speeds increase, the need to reduce latency between the CPU and data becomes more pressing. The answer to that need has seen the rise of local flash storage and PCIe flash solutions. But ...

Processing power, networking and memory/storage are key ingredients in every computing architecture and they are key factors in running any application. In this piece we want to talk about the impact ...