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.

Recent advances in graphics processing units (GPUs) have opened a new frontier in query processing and database systems. Leveraging the massively parallel architecture of GPUs, modern database engines ...

New natural-language query engine combines AI, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation to deliver accurate, cited answers across ...

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 ...

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, ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Slow is the new broke. But things don’t have to be slow to be broke. A poor user experience with your online ordering system will hurt your bottom line. Most database performance-tuning methodologies ...

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