The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...

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Today, loading a web page on a big website usually involves a database query -- to retrieve the latest contributions to a discussion you're participating in, a list of news stories related to the one ...

Application performance automation platform provider Cast AI Group Inc. today announced the launch of Database Optimizer, a new approach to caching that improves cloud database performance. The new ...

Facebook is releasing mcrouter, its software for turning many cache servers around the world into one distributed system, as open source. The company announced the release on Monday at its @Scale ...

In his timeless masterpiece, The Art of War, Sun Tzu states: “…one who is skilled in warfare principles …takes the enemy’s walled city without attacking… His aim must be to take All-Under-Heaven ...

boosts application performance by reducing the number of database calls to retrieve the data. ASP.NET provides two basic caching techniques: page (Page Output and Page Fragment) and programmatic ...

A 16TB cache of corporate intelligence data has been left exposed online, spilling billions of detailed professional profiles ...