SoC designs are large designs made by combining other large designs. A typical SoC has many communication pathways and a large amount of parallel activity. In order to debug these kinds of designs ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

The MongoDB 4.0 release introduced multi-document transactions to the popular open source NoSQL DB. The lack of a transactional capability has been a key limiting factor in MongoDB uptake, so it’s not ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

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 ...