Metadata management has always been the focus of distributed file systems research. Metadata replication exhibits a comparative advantage in maintaining locality and balancing system load. However, ...

As developers tackle increasingly large problems, they have to store their data in more complex ways — adding a constellation of computers to house it all. But adding more computer hardware can lead ...

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 ...