Distributed transaction management: Uses distributed concurrency and commit protocols. Also, in case of numerous transaction failures, the database provides methods of distributed recovery.

Apache ShardingSphere can transform any database to a distributed database system, while enhancing it with functions such as sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features, etc.

Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database has reached general availability and can help organisations achieve the highest levels of scalability and availability while addressing data ...

Industry analyst and former IT executive Matt Kimball digs into the technical and operational details of Oracle's new Globally Distributed Autonomous Database.

For many databases, however, supporting this level of elasticity might require some fundamental reworking of the underlying architecture. Databases have been distributed in terms of instances running ...

Distributed data management and data center design For companies either running in the cloud - or looking to move an application to a multi-cloud approach - implementing a hybrid cloud database ...

Databases, distributed systems and containerization within the cloud In the past, the conversations around cloud and containerization has dominated actual infrastructure.

Neo4j is not yet a fully distributed graph database, even with 4.0. But with the new multiple database feature – which essentially allows users to shard a single graph database into multiple ...

How can these decentralized and distributed databases be applied? The databases accelerate the communication between different parties in the production lane. Let’s consider the following ...

Database as a Service is an emerging area of cloud computing. GenieDB wants to win in that market by offering a version of MySQL that provides continuous availability using a geographically ...