The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...

A data (or database) cache is a high-performance data storage layer that stores a subset of transient data so that future requests for that data are provided faster than by accessing the primary ...

Researchers have developed a new system for data center caching that uses flash memory, the kind of memory used in most smartphones. Most modern websites store data in databases, and since database ...

The shorter the distance application data has to travel to drive a web application, the better the user experience will be. Developers have a wide array of places to use a data cache, but each comes ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. New caching technology is poised to dramatically increase ...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) marks a paradigm shift from conventional, host-centric networking to a model where the focus is on the retrieval and distribution of data itself. At its core, ICN ...

Facebook is releasing mcrouter, its software for turning many cache servers around the world into one distributed system, as open source. The company announced the release on Monday at its @Scale ...

Samsung today announced it has acquired caching company Proximal Data. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Based in San Diego, California, Proximal Data specializes in server-side ...