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 ...

Business happens in real time but many business systems don’t. It’s time to move past client-server databases, data warehouses, and batch processes. Businesses are 24/7. This includes ...

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 ...

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 ...