The advantage of using one connection for multiple statements is that it reduces the overhead of establishing multiple connections, while allowing multiple statements to access the database. The ...

Yugabyte said today it raised $188 million in Series C funding to advance its go-to-market and database engineering efforts. The new funding is the second time this year the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based ...

Distributed SQL is an evolution of the database for cloud native, distributed transactions. It can implement a standard SQL interface, ease operational complexity of scale, is geo-replicated, always ...

Amazon has announced that Amazon Aurora DSQL is finally generally available after first being introduced as a preview at re:Invent last year. Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database ...

During my decades as a database application developer, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever have access to a transactional, planet-scale, distributed database, much less that I ...

Learn why replacing transactional MSMQ with RabbitMQ changes consistency guarantees and how the outbox pattern helps preserve ...

The relational database management system (RDBMS) held a stranglehold on enterprise data management from the mid-1980s through to the mid-2000s. For 25 years the question was never “should I use a ...

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 faster, you ...