One of the prevailing conversations around database systems lately revolves around ACID support. But not everybody knows what is meant by the term ACID. Oh, perhaps they know that it involves how data ...

NoSQL databases have made it possible to store more data faster and cheaper than ever before. Web giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook have come to depend on them in a big way. But they have some ...

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If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

MongoDB Inc., the company behind the popular open-source NoSQL database used for managing large amounts of rapidly changing data, today unveiled a new iteration of the platform that could ...

The free embedded database LMDB has reached version 1.0. It relies on memory mapping and MVCC for fast, transaction-safe data ...