Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they’re treated as “set it and forget it” structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, ...

Regular readers know that I periodically discuss database performance issues and that I always like to start with a definition of database performance, that I will reiterate here: If you need ...

In today’s data-driven world, the exponential growth of unstructured data is a phenomenon that demands our attention. The rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has added even more ...

Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata ...

Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it. Improving ...