The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

It’s interesting; when you look at the performance of a typical enterprise application deployed to the cloud, the prototypical points of contention when it comes to performance disappear, and a ...