Expanding its portfolio of Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, Google has announced that it is adding a new database service called Cloud Spanner to its public cloud platform. This service ...

Google is said to be mulling the idea of commercializing a highly scalable, globally distributed database technology known as “Spanner”, which the company has been using in its own data centers for ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to analyze ...

Just three months after introducing its massive Cloud Spanner database in beta test, Google Inc. today made it generally available across the world. The cloud version represents a potent challenge to ...

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 ...

In distributed databases, no principle is quite as famous as “CAP” Theorem (also known as Brewer’s Theorem). CAP Theorem states that a distributed database can at most support two of the following ...

Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. But what would the world look like if ...