Swiss-French feature “Summer Drift,” premiering at ACID Cannes Saturday, May 16, follows Johanna Schopfer, a watch factory worker in Geneva whose summer obsession with restoring her vintage VW Beetle becomes a personal and political act of reclamation. Directed by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter, the film moves between documentary and autofiction, using reconstructed scenes and […]
NoSQL is an umbrella term for databases that depart from the strict relational, SQL-based, table-and-row model. The category emerged in the late 2000s as web-scale applications needed horizontal scaling and flexible schemas that traditional relational systems struggled to provide. NoSQL is not a single technology but four broadly recognised families.
The four families
OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) describes the class of database workloads characterised by many short-lived, latency-sensitive transactions: row-level reads and writes that back interactive applications. OLTP contrasts with OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), where queries scan large fractions of historical data for analytics.
OLTP characteristics
Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) is a concurrency mechanism in which writers do not block readers and readers do not block writers. Instead of locking rows for the duration of a transaction, the database keeps multiple versions of each row, and each transaction sees a consistent snapshot of the data as of its start time.
How it works
Every row carries internal metadata about which…
MySQL is one of the most widely deployed open-source relational databases, especially common in web stacks and as the storage layer behind countless WordPress, Rails, and PHP applications. It is owned by Oracle, with two prominent community forks: MariaDB (separate project since 2010) and Percona Server (a drop-in replacement with operational tooling).
Key features
SQL (Structured Query Language) is the declarative language for defining, querying, and manipulating relational databases. Despite decades of speculation about its replacement, SQL remains the dominant data interface across analytics, transactional systems, and increasingly across distributed and embedded databases.
Statement categories
EXCLUSIVE: Celluloid Dreams has taken international sales rights for French director Paul Nouhet’s Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou) ahead of its world premiere in Cannes parallel section ACID. The film follows a trip to Barcelona, the mecca of skateboarding, by four friends on their first independent trip to together as they turn 18. A decade later, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has acquired international sales rights to Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), which was announced on Tuesday as the opening film of Cannes parallel section ACID. The debut feature from French directors Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier follows 24 hours in the life of a couple, exposing the dysfunction at the heart […]
ACID, the filmmaker-selected Cannes parallel section which first championed the early works of Justine Triet, Kaouther Ben Hania and Radu Jude, has announced the lineup for it 2026 edition. The selection, showcasing nine independent productions, will open with French fiction Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile). Set on a scorching hot day in a […]