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, ...

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 ...

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.

In-memory computing is comprised of two main categories: In-Memory Databases and In-Memory Data Grids. I’d like to delve into the differences between the two groups. While an In-Memory Database (IMDB) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the reasons that the University of California at Berkeley was been a hotbed of software technology back in the 1970s and 1980s is Michael Stonebraker, who was one of the pioneers in relational ...

Growth in intelligent connected devices is soaring. Whether in the home, the pocket or built into industrial communications and transportation systems, such gear has evolved to include powerful CPUs ...