To understand how in-memory technology translates into faster business processes, listen to Larry Ellison. When Oracle ’s CEO introduced the new Oracle Database In-Memory option on June 10, he gave ...

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Look out, Teradata and HPE Vertica: There’s a new MPP player in town. MariaDB today announced that it’s added a column store to its popular relational database, thereby enabling it to efficiently run ...