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 ...

Yesterday, Microsoft's Dave Campbell, a Technical Fellow on the SQL Server team, posted to the SQL Server team blog on the subject of in-memory database technology. Mary Jo Foley, our "All About ...

Fresh off two wins on Sunday afternoon, which kept Oracle TEAM USA in the thick of the America’s Cup sailing race, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening with his traditional ...

I was wondering why Microsoft officials decided this week to blog about the company's in-memory database moves. But now I think I know what was behind this. It's looking like this may have been ...

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 Sunday opened its annual Oracle OpenWorld conference with the introduction of several new hardware systems highlighted by an in-memory database technology it claims improves database query ...

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 ...

The new version of Sybase’s flagship database system software, released Wednesday, will be the first version that can be run entirely within working memory. Version 15.5 of the Sybase ASE (Adaptive ...

RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers. In the form of SRAM (static RAM) or DRAM (dynamic RAM), it’s where data is ...