A distributed cloud database is a database in which operational data is spread across different physical locations—for example, across different data centers, across hybrid clouds (such as private and ...

Relational calculus. Query processing and optimization. Transaction processing: failure, recovery, and concurrency. Database security. Logic-based systems. Parallel ...

The Web services revolution has started. New standards and technologies enable and integrate distributed Web services. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), an XML RPC (remote procedure ...

Business happens in real time but many business systems don’t. It’s time to move past client-server databases, data warehouses, and batch processes. Businesses are 24/7. This includes everything from ...

Recently, an industry commentator suggested that client/server, as it has existed over the past two decades, may be in its twilight stage. Is this truly the case? Most enterprises rely on ...