This chapter excerpt on Parallel SQL (download PDF) is taken from the book Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization. Get pertinent information on optimizing ...

This chapter excerpt on Parallel SQL (download PDF) is taken from the book Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization. Get pertinent information on optimizing ...

Aerospike, Inc., a real-time data platform provider, is introducing Aerospike SQL Powered by Starburst, enabling customers to run massively parallel, complex SQL queries on petabyte-scale data stored ...

AWS has announced Parallel Query for Amazon Aurora. According to the company, this provides faster analytical queries over transactional data that can speed up queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, ...

A new version of PostgreSQL has been released with support for parallel queries and synchronous replication on multiple standby servers. Other improvements in Version 9.6 include full-text search for ...

Next major release of the major open source relational database, now in beta, brings performance improvements to query execution and to logical replication. PostgreSQL 16, the next major update of the ...

This chapter starts with a review of the history of database architecture. Initially, memory was expensive, so small amounts of RAM were used, and data persisted to disk. However, memory is now much ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...