Blockchain or Blockchain as a Service? If you are like me, the use of the aforementioned sentence ender is the correct punctuation mark. To be clear, I didn’t immediately recognize the technology. However, if I said the word Bitcoin (aka cryptocurrency), you would likely recognize the name. Blockchain is one of the driving technologies behind…

“Sharding” is something many of us have heard a lot about in various database engines, including Oracle’s NoSQL Database. Recently, Oracle announced Oracle Database 12c Release 2 which added various new features, one of which is database native “Sharding." In part one of this three-part article series, we will cover this new feature in depth. Starting with the Oracle Sharding architecture and its components, then moving on to deployment and management of the sharding configuration.

“Sharding” is something many of us have heard a lot about in various database engines, including Oracle’s NoSQL Database. Recently, Oracle announced Oracle Database 12c Release 2 which added various new features, one of which is database native “Sharding." In part one of this three-part article series, we will cover this new feature in depth. Starting with the Oracle Sharding architecture and its components, then moving on to deployment and management of the sharding configuration.