For instance, a distributed system might use a P2P design for file sharing and a client-server architecture for web requests. What are the advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems?

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Architecture Director at Nice Systems, puts it this way, "SOA is just something that's become a good way to build distributed systems. When you are building a system in frameworks ...

Apache ShardingSphere is the ecosystem to transform any database into a distributed database system and enhance it with sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features, and more.

A distributed architecture is able to serve as an umbrella for many different systems. Hadoop is just one example of a framework that can bring together a broad array of tools such as (according to ...

Jinpeng Zhang is a database engineer on the storage team at PingCAP.. Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server ...

Yugabyte, the company behind the leading distributed SQL database, today announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.9. This latest release del ...

pgEdge Architecture and Source Code AvailabilityThe multi-active (multi-master) architecture of pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL allows read and write operations to take place at any database node on ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi ...