I've been reading up on the Actor Model in programming and I must say that I am very interested in it. The way you model your applications with little agents that receive and can send messages feels ...

What is NoSQL, and why do you need it? By now, much has been written about the lower cost associated with running clusters of commodity servers. Much has also been written about the added flexibility ...

One of the prevailing conversations around database systems lately revolves around ACID support. But not everybody knows what is meant by the term ACID. Oh, perhaps they know that it involves how data ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.