I am building web/database app for a project at school. Its going to run a Course Evaluations system which lets students evaluate classes on a number of criteria. There are 5500 students here, so ...

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released new benchmarks for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers and hopes CIOs will use the new measures to inform their ...

Whatever form, shape and type of database we chose to use, the software that drives it fundamentally depends upon a chunk of hardware to exist, wherever that may be. So being effecient with ...

CEO Larry Ellison Wednesday unveiled two hardware systems, an advanced database server and a programmable storage server, co-developed with Hewlett-Packard, that will make Oracle a player in the ...

Software giant Oracle is now a fully fledged hardware giant, too, and is now going to muscle against established storage vendors such as IBM and EMC.

Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The ...

Sun and Oracle launched a high-end OLTP server that combines Sun hardware with Oracle's database software.

The system is also offered in half-rack, quarter-rack and single-server configurations, however. The entry product starts at $115,000 for the database server hardware.

Dell announced two database servers which promise to give enterprise users high-end performance for less cost. The company introduced four-processor PowerEdge 680 and 685 servers, along with ...