Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 is slated to deliver in-memory OLTP capabilities, plus a handful of other new and enhanced database features early next year.

SQL Server 2014’s biggest new feature is in-memory transaction processing, or in-memory OLTP, which Microsoft claims can make database operations as much as 30 times faster.

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...

Hekaton, Microsoft's in-memory database for online transaction processing in SQL Server, can increase processing speeds up to 30x using a system’s main memory for faster access time. However ...

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system.

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Microsoft predicts that its in-memory technology can run transaction 50 times faster than a standard SQL Server setup.

Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.

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