Some time ago in Backspin I wrote about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program that created to provide a high-tech. PC-type teaching tool for distribution to children in Third World countries. The ...

Naresh Miryala is an accomplished engineering leader at Meta with nearly two decades of experience in cloud and data platform engineering. As someone deeply involved in the database space, the rapid ...

Oracle recently launched its Exadata X11M product to the market. Exadata is an integrated hardware and software platform designed from the ground up to optimize Oracle Database workloads. Exadata X11M ...

Having recently recommended Dan Weinreb’s blog, I dropped by to see what he might have added. Besides the distress of discovering I called somebody “middle-aged” who’s only a year older than I am, I ...

Aerospike on Tuesday took the covers off its new Graph database that can support both Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads. The new database, dubbed ...

Databricks launched Lakebase, a Postgres-based operational OLTP database, at its Data + AI Summit in June. The goal is to ...

Databricks announced it is acquiring Mooncake Labs to accelerate its vision of a Lakebase-a new category of OLTP database built on Postgres and optimized for AI agents.