The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries. The demand for ...

MariaDB announced MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status, bringing together a year of rapid innovation into a rock-solid, production-ready package maintained for the ...

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An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--pganalyze (Duboce Labs, Inc.), the leader in Postgres performance optimization and observability, today announced the new pganalyze Index Advisor™, based on the ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Developers have a strong affinity for deploying their applications on open-source database engines, such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers these ...

Azure HorizonDB enters public preview at Microsoft Build 2026 alongside Web IQ, a Bing-rebuilt AI grounding API already ...

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WordPress 6.1, scheduled for November 2022, will feature a “massive improvement to database performance” thanks to new post query caching. This new feature promises to make WordPress websites perform ...