Operational Databases - Where's the Value?

Philip Howard is impressed with what a lot of IT vendors are doing to support the fight against Covid-19, including SAS and the CovidGraph project.

NuoDB is a very interesting product, both from a conceptual and an architectural point of view.

Tokutek provides an interesting alternative to sharding, SSDs or relacement databases if MySQL is running too slowly

This paper is focused on a comparison between Sybase ASE and Oracle and it should help customers to understand the potential TCO benefits of using Sybase ASE as opposed to Oracle.

We takes a close look at IBM pureScale Application System and Oracle Exadata X2-2, comparing their scalability, clustering technology, performance, implementation and administration ease, and costs.

This paper provides a comprehensive comparison of IBM and Oracle's offerings for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing.