And though memory is cheaper now than ever before, it is still more expensive than disk, so moving everything to memory is currently not feasible. Furthermore, traditional DBMSes (such as DB2) are ...

Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. Although the authors of so many pieces were using the term with ...

The world of technology is currently abuzz with claims of value around “in-memory” technology. By working with data stored in RAM for processing, instead of a traditional database, from which ...

In-memory database technology improves specific application performance notably. But challenges need to be met before in-memory database becomes the norm.

In the traditional database off-loading use case, static queries from the database are cached in memory on the application server.

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

Companies that run SAP’s applications should know that most of those applications can perform much better on Oracle Database than on any other database platform, including HANA.

I was wondering why Microsoft officials decided this week to blog about the company's in-memory database moves. But now I think I know what was behind this. It's looking like this may have been ...

A database that resides in RAM. An entire database is copied from storage to main memory and remains there for processing. Today's computers support terabytes of RAM, and because RAM is considerably ...