Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of ...

Industry analyst and former IT executive Matt Kimball digs into the technical and operational details of Oracle's new Globally Distributed Autonomous Database.

Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte ...

Oracle is releasing its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, a fully managed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service that offers built-in, cutting-edge capabilities that redefine how ...

Database as a Service is an emerging area of cloud computing. GenieDB wants to win in that market by offering a version of MySQL that provides continuous availability using a geographically ...

Azure SQL Database includes the option to create active geo-replicas, which are geographically distributed secondary databases.

A distributed SQL database is “lightweight, portable and fast for the cloud, but still reliable and familiar so that application developers can use it for multiple workloads,” he added.

At the recent Distributed SQL Summit, Yugabyte announced the general availability of Yugabyte Cloud, a database-as-a-service version of the Postgres compatible YugabyteDB.

Startup pgEdge, with a fully distributed database for use in the cloud and at the network edge, emerged from stealth with $9M in seed funding.

PostgreSQL users who were considering adopting a distributed NoSQL database like MongoDB or Cassandra to gain scalability benefits for big data may want to think twice about that approach following ...