It was two years ago when we last wrote about Millenniata and its Millenial Disc for ultra long-term data storage of somewhere between "1,000 years" and "forever." If you'll recall, it works using a ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: In-memory database systems (IMDSs) store records in main memory, they never go to disk. Through this elimination of disk access, IMDSs claim significant performance gains over more ...

"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray liked to say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, his words about memory and disk live on. Fred Holahan, the ...