On MySQL HeatWave. Q&A with Frederic Descamps
Q1. What is exactly MySQL HeatWave and how does it compared to the “vanilla” MySQL?MySQL HeatWave is the name of the MySQL Managed Service (DBaaS) by Oracle. Of course it’s available in OCI but...
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On Oracle MySQL: An Overview. Q&A with Heather Vancura
Q1. If you need to summarize in a nutshell, what happened to MySQL since Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL AB on 21 January 2010? Stewardship of a community is easy for new and emerging technology....
On StarRocks. Q&A with Andy Ye
Q1. What is StarRocks? StarRocks is the only open-source SQL query engine able to run the most demanding data warehouse workloads directly on the data lakehouse, without ingesting into a proprietary data warehouse for...
Understanding How Your Data is Stored, Compressed, and Accessed Can Accelerate Data Query Performance
By Gavin Halliday, HPCC Systems Businesses are using big data platforms to glean valuable business intelligence from the enormous amounts of data they generate. The size of that business data grows exponentially, making it...
On Real-time data management. Q&A with Steinar Sande.
Q1. Where do you position Raima in the overall database market? A major benefit of Raima ́s edge computing data management solution is that it improves time to action and reduces response time down...
On Databases with a Small Footprint. Q&A with David Nguyen
Q1. What does it mean to have a database with a small footprint? A database with a small footprint can mean a few things. The main one being that the database engine must utilize...
On Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications. Q&A with Abdelouahab Khelifati and Mourad Khayati
Time Series Database Systems (TSDBs) are specialized database systems designed to efficiently manage high-frequencytime series data. Unlike relational database systems, TSDBs rely on the general assumption that queries do not target individual tuples but summarized entries in a time...
How will the GenAI/LLM database market evolve in 2024. Q&A with Madhukar Kumar
Q1. What were in your opinion the main trends for the database in 2023? At the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, I noticed several interesting trends happening in the database ecosystem....
Q&A with the MySQL Community Team
by Heather VanCura Today, we are joined by two members of the MySQL Community Team, Frédéric Descamps (AKA lefred) and Scott Stroz. Q: Can you tell us a little about your background? Fred: I’ve worked in...
On Real-time Databases. Q&A with Andrei Gorine and Steve Graves
“Another rapidly evolving concept is real-time mixed criticality systems that integrate components with different levels of criticality onto a single computing platform.” Q1. Why is there a need for real-time databases? Data has become the greatest...