A study on high-concurrency payment systems proposes a distributed architecture with layered consistency control to ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

Lenders already hold vast amounts of transaction data across current accounts, credit cards, loans and savings products. The challenge is usability. Raw transaction data is typically structured for ...

Banks collect and share your financial data in ways most people don't realize. Here's exactly where it goes and who sees it.