While it’s common to use the Java Transaction API and the XA protocol for distributed transactions in Spring, you do have other options. The optimum implementation depends on the types of resources ...

Using J(2)EE application server has been a norm when high-end features like transactions, security, availability, and scalability are mandatory. There are very few options for java applications, which ...

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A distributed database is a database that consists of two or more files located in different sites on the same or different networks. Processing is distributed among multiple database nodes stored in ...

Multi-cloud is inevitable, not optional. With eighty-six percent of organizations already operating in a multi-cloud environment, it's a reality driven by modernization and FinTech competition.

As cloud platforms leader AWS pushes deeper into distributed cloud databases through added support for transaction processing workloads in DynamoDB, its NoSQL software, smaller vendors such as Fauna ...

Blockchain sounds like a way to keep boats anchored, which isn’t a bad analogy, considering what the technology purports to do. While some IT experts herald it as a groundbreaking way of creating a ...

Is it possible to use linked services in MSSQL Server and execute queries if the Distributed Transaction Coordinator is not enabled? Maybe this should be in the NT forum, but I thought writing queries ...

Fauna, a database whose founders came from Twitter, is adding an important capability for enterprises seeking to operate global databases; a new "region groups" feature that enables enterprises to ...