Samsung-backed start-up Stellus emerged from stealth mode to announce its software defined Stellus Data Platform. This is a storage technology involving native key-value stores to create a new type of ...

Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and ...

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly ...

Key-value stores are the simplest, most fundamental data storage systems. Rather than providing elaborate query languages, most of them provide simple interfaces to store and retrieve data. Businesses ...

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Like many, you might think of Redis as only a cache. That point of view is out of date. Essentially, Redis is a NoSQL in-memory data structure store that can persist on disk. It can function as a ...

Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block ...