Query compilation and execution form the critical backbone of database systems, where high-level queries are translated into efficient low-level machine code and then executed to retrieve data.

Temporal database systems are designed to capture and manage data that varies over time, thereby accommodating historical and time‐sensitive information. These systems integrate temporal dimensions ...

Brave Software developers have created a new privacy-centric database query system called FrodoPIR that retrieves data from servers without disclosing the content of user queries. Brave plans to use ...

Internal Zilliz benchmarks show that purpose-built Milvus outperforms PostgreSQL with pgvector, delivering 60% lower latency and 4.5 times higher throughput under identical vector search conditions.

One area that has not received as much attention as others, however, is the risk involved in business users’ use of gen AI to query data stored in databases. Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI ...

Databases are the backbone of countless applications and systems, yet managing them can often feel like navigating a maze of complexity. If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with SQL queries, ...

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