In the world of decentralization, distributed hash tables (DHTs) recently have had a revolutionary effect. The chaotic, ad hoc topologies of the first-generation peer-to-peer architectures have been ...

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Amazon today announced a massive update to its Redshift service. In short, developers have gained more options and more ways to organize and query their petabyte-scale data warehouse. The new ...

ShopChain reveals an innovative approach to decentralizing shopper data leveraging Ethereum Blockchain, federated consensus, and an asynchronous distributed hash table technology. Brooklyn, Nov. 06, ...

A new MariaDB storage engine provides distributed SQL and massive scalability with a shared nothing architecture, fully distributed ACID transactions, and strong consistency As information and ...

In this information-driven age, displaying tables with thousands or tens of thousands of rows is standard practice. The data that populates these tables is generally retrieved from remote databases, ...