Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of its Cloud and AI Group, speaks at Microsoft Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying ...

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.

A research-paper retrospective explains how separating query processing, logs, pages and storage changed the scaling behavior of Azure SQL Database.

Pinecone on Tuesday launched its serverless vector database on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in a move that enables customers to use the fully managed database on the cloud of their choice. The ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the ...

A serverless database is a type of cloud database that is fully managed for an organization by a cloud service provider and runs on demand as needed to support applications. The database system ...

When Edo Liberty was completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale on random projections, he could have hardly known that a decade later it would be a fundamental component of modern AI. Liberty is ...

From monolithic database servers to no database servers at all. Can the serverless computing paradigm change the landscape for relational databases technologies as well? Serverless computing, a ...