Bharat Kumar Dokka is a distinguished Associate Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in database product ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help ...

In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding ...

It’s rare in the world of software to see a single architecture dominate as comprehensively as the relational database model. The relational database (RDBMS)—actually a hybrid of Codd’s relational ...

CockroachDB is a geo-distributed SQL database. By distributed, we mean it's horizontally scalable to grow with your application. It's geo-distributed to handle a data center failure.

Digital transformation. Infrastructure modernization. Global data center demands. All these forces and more are driving enterprises around the world to seek out next generation cloud-based ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

More from Microsoft's lead SQL architect about how telemetry data is helping the company deliver regular, highly requested and targeted feature improvements at a massive scale.

Data architects visualize and design an organization's enterprise data management framework, aligned with enterprise strategy and business architecture.

Transactions in the latest offering are supported through Couchbase’s SQL-like language, along with new features that narrowed the gap between NoSQL and relational databases.