EDN

In-memory database systems, NVDIMMs and data durability

In an industrial control system, integration of an IMDS within a controller supports a ‘flattened’ control system architecture in which data is stored and processed, and some control decisions occur, ...
Electronic Design

Real-Time Database Systems Aren't Actually Real-Time. Unless They Are.

Why external consistency is so important for a hard real-time database. Maintaining a transaction timeline. The impact of a transaction-scheduling policy. A real-time database-management system (DMBS) ...
dbta

End of the One-Size-Fits-All DBMS?

Non-relational cloud databases such as Google's BigTable, Amazon's SimpleDB and Microsoft's SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) have emerged. But while these new data stores may well fill a niche in cloud ...
Electronic Design

IMDSs Bring Off-the-Shelf Database Software to the Electronics Mainstream

Most of today’s mid-career engineers remember when the idea of including a database management system (DBMS) within electronics’ embedded software was considered laughable. DBMSs’ hardware demands ...
dbta

What Is a NewSQL Database System?

The landscape for database management systems is changing more rapidly these days than it has since the earliest days of the relational DBMS. Not only do we have an onslaught of NoSQL database systems ...