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There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

When it comes to business information, chief information officers (CIOs) and chief data officers (CDOs) are tasked with bringing order to chaos. As firms gather ever more data, they face both ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

With the rapid success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other emerging types of AI solutions in the last several years, organizations have been scrambling to adopt artificial intelligence by “any means ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...