And though memory is cheaper now than ever before, it is still more expensive than disk, so moving everything to memory is currently not feasible. Furthermore, traditional DBMSes (such as DB2) are ...

What does in-memory database actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. Although the authors of so many pieces were using the term with ...

So, What’s an In-Memory Database (IMDB)? An IMDB is a database management system that primarily relies on main memory for computer data storage.

In-memory is gaining traction within enterprise data environments and leading enterprise vendors are including it in their new releases with the goal of finally making the real-time enterprise a ...

Oracle Database In-Memory boosts performance through an architectural twist to the relational database model that has long been the norm in corporate data centers.

Database vendors continue to move computing and analytical processing closer to data as applications leverage more data types ranging from structured to those data sets that can be transformed to ...

Microsoft isn't often mentioned when it comes to in-memory database conversations. But here's why Redmond thinks they deserve to be.

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

But real-time applications’ growing need to manage large volumes of complex data has ushered in a new technology: the in-memory database system (IMDS), which stores data in main memory. IMDSs ...