Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had.If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

PlanetScale today took the wraps off its new database as a service based on Vitess, the horizontally distributed branch of MySQL that was developed at YouTube. Folks who have struggled with eventual ...

A key differentiator between TiDB and other MySQL-compatible databases is TiDB’s distributed architecture. MySQL is a 23-year-old technology that was never meant to work as a distributed system.

GenieDB, a provider of a leading Database-as-a-Service solution for MySQL, today announced that its recently-launched GenieDB Globally Distributed MySQL-as-a-Service technology has been featured ...

NEW YORK, May 10, 2023 — At its global user conference OpenWorks 2023, MariaDB this week unveiled its vision to bring the power of distributed SQL through its award-winning Xpand database to both the ...

Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications. Cloud Spanner joins Google’s other cloud-based database ...

SkySQL, the cloud database based on the well-known MariaDB open source RDBMS, adds distributed database capabilities for write-intensive applications scalability and high availability.

Oracle has added Oracle Database@Azure and MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse on AWS to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s distributed cloud Oracle believes there should be an internet of clouds; clouds ...

GenieDB has launched a MySQL distributed database service to manage data across multiple regions and cloud providers, making it suited to companies with concerns about the NSA having access to ...