Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications. Cloud Spanner joins Google’s other cloud-based database services ...

In 2005 when Google was a $6.1 billion business, the database that underpinned the company’s primary cash cow – it’s AdWords online advertising platform that accounted for more than 95% of its revenue ...

If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and ...

Google Cloud today announced key updates to some of its most important database platforms, including a free trial for anyone looking to test Cloud Spanner, plus a new service for BigQuery called ...

Google Cloud said today it’s updating multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Spanner and Memorystore for Valkey 7.2, with new features that should make them more suitable for generative ...

Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? It is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

Google unveiled new database capabilities and partnerships at the recently-concluded Google Cloud Next conference. This included expanded beta access for Cloud Firestore, new functionality for Cloud ...

A database that maintains a set of separate, related files (tables), but combines data elements from the files for queries and reports when required. The concept was developed in 1970 by Edgar Codd, ...

Coverage of Google’s sold-out annual cloud conference in San Francisco, as the search giant looks to extend its reach and build its momentum in the cloud. by Tom Krazit on Apr 10, 2019 at 9:00 am ...

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