Let's face it: database security is not the most appealing topic for most people. Ron Bennatan, CTO and co-founder of jSonar, is very aware of it. That, however, has not stopped him and the jSonar ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) is a database optimization technique. MVCC creates ...

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There’s been a lot of discussion recently about autonomous databases, which offer the promise of keeping database systems stable and performant while alleviating much of the tuning and configuration ...

Data is not sedentary. Once data has been created, organizations tend to move it around to support many different purposes—different applications, different geographies, different users, different ...

From the world’s largest cloud computing companies like AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to visionaries like Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata—Gartner ranks the top cloud database management ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...