An in-memory data grid (IMDG) copies disk-based data from RDBMS, NoSQL, or Hadoop databases into RAM, where processing takes place without the delays caused by continual disk reads and writes.

Traditionally, an enterprise database would be stored on disk, because it would be far too large to fit in memory. Also, storing data on nonvolatile disk helps ensure that the material is captured ...

New Relic built the database from scratch and assembled a large cluster that can muscle through terabytes of data to quickly arrive at an answer. In-memory technology allows the service to provide ...

But in-memory databases are subtler than that. This is because they provide an opportunity to optimise the way data is managed compared to traditional databases on disk-based media.

For example, while researching for this article, I stumbled upon a paper from 1984; “ Implementation Techniques for Main Memory Database Systems.“ Even at that time, it made the point that memory was ...

"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray would say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, these words about memory and disk live on, describing a new ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today offered some revved-up cloud computing instances aimed at customers running resource-intensive “in-memory” databases such as SAP SE’s HANA. The new High Memory ...

In-Core/Memory Resident database technology is being used by SAP and Workday. How different are the two vendors' approaches? Written by Brian Sommer, Contributor May 20, 2011, 7:28 a.m. PT ...

New Relic built the database from scratch and assembled a large cluster that can muscle through terabytes of data to quickly arrive at an answer. In-memory technology allows the service to provide ...

Traditionally, an enterprise database would be stored on disk, because it would be far too large to fit in memory. Also, storing data on nonvolatile disk helps ensure that the material is captured ...