Although almost no JDBC application can be written without database metadata methods, you can improve system performance by minimizing their use. To return all result column information mandated by ...

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DuckDB can serve as the dedicated metadata database, but so can PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL, giving users choice.

Besides, these are issues that are industry-wide and beyond IBM, he said. “There is a real metadata issue, but that is an industry issue rather than anything that is IBM-specific,” he said.

In the process, the researchers have created a DNA-based image-storage system that is somewhere between a file system and a metadata-based database. The problems ...