Database management systems (DBMS)
A database management system (DBMS) is system software for creating and managing databases, allowing end users to create, protect, read, update and delete data in a database.. See complete definition.
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10 Feb 2022
ScyllaDB 5.0 set to advance NoSQL database capabilities
At Scylla Summit 2022, the open source NoSQL database vendor introduced upcoming services including a DBaaS as well as a new platform release, and a user outlined its application. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2022
Starburst brings in $250M to advance data mesh aspirations
The vendor continues on its path toward an initial public offering, as demand for its open source Trino-based data lake query engine platform grows. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2021
Microsoft ignites Apache Cassandra Azure service
Microsoft rolled out a series of enhancements for the company's cloud data efforts, including updates to Azure Cosmos DB and a new database service for Cassandra. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2021
DataStax Astra serverless DBaaS optimizes deployments
DataStax is changing how its DBaaS works, providing a way for users to more easily scale both up and own and only pay for the resources that are consumed. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2021
Hasura 2.0 expands GraphQL API-to-database connectivity
Hasura is looking beyond solely transactional databases with its new platform update, enabling users to more easily connect with BigQuery as well as other data sources. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2021
TigerGraph raises $105M in funding to fuel growth
With $105 million in new financing, TigerGraph is planning to invest in more product development and expand its operations into new geographic regions. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2021
YugabyteDB 2.4 brings new Spark to distributed SQL database
Distributed SQL database vendor issues new stable release of its platform, adding support for Apache Spark 3.0 and encryption for data at rest. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2021
Time series database firm EraDB launches Erasearch
EraDB made its EraSearch log management platform generally available, providing organizations with a system that can help improve performance and scalability. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2021
Vendia raises $15.5M for serverless blockchain data sharing
Vendia is building out its data platform that uses distributed ledger blockchain technology to help organizations and developers more easily share data. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2021
MongoDB Realm Sync simplifies cloud data synchronization
MongoDB put into general availability its mobile Realm database to data synchronization service, easing the challenge for developers to connect data from the edge to the cloud. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2021
New Viya, Azure integration enables SAS analytics users
A new integration between SAS Viya and Microsoft Azure makes Azure the preferred cloud for SAS customers and will enable a more seamless connection between the platforms. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2021
DataStax enters event streaming market with Apache Pulsar
DataStax is getting into the event streaming market with the acquisition of Kesque, which uses the open source Apache Pulsar project as the foundation for its platform. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2021
Neo4j unveils cloud graph database for the enterprise
Neo4j Aura Enterprise is a fully-managed cloud database built for large organizations. The vendor previously developed Aura Professional, a similar tool for SMBs. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2021
ScyllaDB NoSQL database to improve with Project Circe
ScyllaDB Project Circe sets out to help improve consistency, elasticity and performance for the open source NoSQL database. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2021
Oracle Database 21c brings blockchain and JavaScript
Oracle's flagship DB platform is moving beyond its roots with the 21c update, to embrace more languages and models in a bid to create a universal converged database offering. Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2021
Cockroach Labs nabs $160M to grow distributed SQL database
Cockroach Labs is looking to advance its CockroachDB database platform in 2021 with $160 million in new funding that it will use to help expand features and market reach. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2021
Open source database comparison to choose the right tool
These are four of the most popular open source relational databases available to enterprises with a comparison chart to help you find the best option to fit your data. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2021
Dremio raises $135M to boost data lake transformation effort
The CEO of Dremio outlines why the vendor is growing as organizations increasingly rely on cloud data storage to fuel business intelligence and analytics. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2020
Emerging data management trends to watch in 2021
A number of nascent efforts across the enterprise data landscape became manifest in 2020 that are likely to become larger trends into 2021, including the data lakehouse, Iceberg and Presto. Continue Reading
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15 Dec 2020
Cloud data warehouse Firebolt secures $37 million at launch
Firebolt, a new challenger to established cloud data storage vendors including Microsoft and Google, launched recently after securing $37 million in financing. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2020
SingleStore raises $80M for distributed SQL database
Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, explains why the vendor rebranded from MemSQL and how its platform is more than just an in-memory database, but is a general-purpose database. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2020
Oracle MySQL Database Service integrates analytics engine
The enterprise edition of the MySQL database is being enhanced on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable users to run analytics queries on the same system as transactional queries. Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2020
MongoDB Atlas Online Archive brings data tiering to DBaaS
MongoDB's online archive service gives organizations the ability to automatically archive data to lower-cost storage, while still enabling the data to be queried. Continue Reading
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24 Nov 2020
IBM to deliver refurbished Db2 for the AI and cloud era
IBM has a tuned-up version of Db2 planned, featuring a handful of AI and machine learning capabilities to make it easier for users to send and manage Db2 data across clouds. Continue Reading
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23 Nov 2020
Fauna improves data API collaboration and security
A database company founded by former Twitter engineers is pushing forward its vision of a way to consume database as a service using its own Fauna Query Language. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2020
DataStax optimizes Cassandra for Kubernetes with K8ssandra
The data management vendor is combining monitoring tools, helm charts and an operator to improve Cassandra database deployment and management for cloud-native Kubernetes environments. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2020
Cockroach adds geospatial data to cloud-native database
Cockroach Labs is updating its namesake database platform with new features that improve security and performance, as well as getting an open source Pebble storage engine. Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2020
TigerGraph taking advantage of graph database growth
TigerGraph continues to aggressively expand its customer base by focusing on ease of use as it updates its platform and offers free versions of its tools. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
Databricks builds out SQL Analytics for data lakehouse
Databricks is building out its lakehouse platform with a new SQL Analytics service that will make it easier to run SQL queries with better visualization in the cloud. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
Google brings wizard approach to cloud database migration
Google Cloud's top database executive details the tech giant's new tool for enterprises to move databases to the cloud, as the need has accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic era. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2020
New Yugabyte release boosts distributed SQL database security
Yugabyte now has row-level geo-partitioning for its open source distributed SQL database, enhanced multi-region features and several new features to improve security. Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2020
Lines blur between structured and unstructured data storage
Open source tools like Presto persist low-cost unstructured object data stores while still making information accessible through structured data access tools such as SQL. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2020
Cazena launches Instant AWS Cloud Data Lake service
Cazena advanced its cloud data platform with an integrated service that helps organizations to more quickly benefit from a cloud data lake running on AWS. Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2020
Rockset raises $40M for real-time indexing database
The CEO and co-founder of real-time indexing database vendor details the evolution of the company from its origins in the open source RocksDB project to future development projects. Continue Reading
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15 Oct 2020
Oracle accelerates Exadata database cloud service
More powerful server hardware is coming to the Exadata database service, bringing increased scalability and throughput for Oracle's database and analytics workloads. Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2020
Nutanix brings database management into Era 2.0
Nutanix is now looking beyond just on-premises hardware and private clouds to help its users deploy and manage data based across hybrid cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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02 Oct 2020
Amazon Timestream time series database generally available
AWS continues to grow its portfolio of cloud database services, as the Amazon Timestream database emerges out of preview to help serve the growing market demand for time series databases. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2020
PostgreSQL 13 advances popular open source database
The open source database project has its first major milestone release of 2020, bringing users accelerated data query performance and optimizations to improve overall operations. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2020
Ahana releases managed Cloud for Presto service
New Ahana cloud system brings a managed service to market that integrates data management and visualization capabilities to aid in business intelligence and data analytics. Continue Reading
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18 Sep 2020
Aerospike Connect improves integrations with NoSQL database
Aerospike updates connectors for popular data query and event streaming tools, including Kafka, Spark, Pulsar and soon Presto, helping users to get more real-time data. Continue Reading
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10 Sep 2020
Data mapping as a service, a modern form of data discovery
The CEO of ActiveNav provides insight into how data mapping fits into the data management landscape as the vendor launches a new data mapping-as-a-service platform. Continue Reading
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27 Aug 2020
Kafka users Northrop Grumman, Walmart highlight event streaming
Walmart and Northrop Grumman talk about deployment and the benefits of using the open source Kafka technology to enable modern data-driven applications. Continue Reading
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26 Aug 2020
Confluent Platform 6 brings cluster linking to Apache Kafka
Event streaming vendor Confluent adds new cluster linking capabilities in its latest platform update, bringing more scalability for deployments that span multiple clouds. Continue Reading
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25 Aug 2020
Redis Labs looks to grow database with $100M funding
Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal gives insight into the state of the open source Redis database and caching layer, and where the vendor is headed, with a possible IPO on the horizon. Continue Reading
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20 Aug 2020
Google enhances Cloud Spanner and other databases
Google is adding a series of enhancements to its cloud database portfolio, with new capabilities for the Bigtable data store, Firestore mobile database and other platforms. Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2020
K2View takes aim at DataOps with new funding
K2View CEO and co-founder talks about how his company's micro-database fabric approach to user data aims to improve data management by consolidating data in one place. Continue Reading
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06 Aug 2020
TigerGraph adds cloud support, helps standardize graph coding
With democratization of graph databases in mind, TigerGraph recently added support for Microsoft Azure and took steps to help standardize graph query language. Continue Reading
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31 Jul 2020
Subsurface event reveals what lies below the cloud data lake
Users at the Dremio-sponsored Subsurface virtual conference detail data lake efforts and trends, including the emerging Apache Iceberg project, originally created by Netflix. Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2020
Hasura Cloud launches GraphQL-as-a-service platform
Hasura made its GraphQL platform available as a managed service, enabling organizations to connect and query different data sources using the open source GraphQL language. Continue Reading
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21 Jul 2020
Startup TileDB raises funds to advance universal data engine
A database technology project originally developed at MIT gets new funding that will help the startup database vendor grow and aim at a broader market. Continue Reading
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16 Jul 2020
Distributed SQL database capabilities come to MariaDB X5
Open source database vendor updates its MariaDB platform with a new release that integrates improved Kafka support and a faster InnoDB storage engine to accelerate performance. Continue Reading
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15 Jul 2020
YugabyteDB 2.2 improves open source distributed SQL database
Yugabyte updates its open source database platform that is API compatible with both Apache Cassandra and PostgreSQL with improved scalability capabilities. Continue Reading
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10 Jul 2020
AWS and Oracle battle for hybrid cloud database deployment
Oracle's Autonomous Database and the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are coming down from the cloud and are now available for users to run on premises. Continue Reading
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01 Jul 2020
Confluent enables infinite Kafka scalability in the cloud
Kafka gets data retention boost that can make it easier for users to store event streaming data for long periods of time, which can help with data analysis. Continue Reading
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24 Jun 2020
Taking a practical approach to open source PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL database users including Ikea and Konica Minolta Healthcare detail how and why they chose to use the open source database at the Postgres Vision 2020 virtual conference. Continue Reading
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23 Jun 2020
IBM advances its Cloudant cloud database as DBaaS grows
Adam Kocoloski, VP and CTO of IBM cloud data services, details IBM's direction and strategy for cloud databases and explains why Cloudant is changing to boost scalability. Continue Reading
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19 Jun 2020
Yellowbrick CEO outlines hybrid path to cloud data warehouse
Neil Carson, co-founder and CEO of Yellowbrick, details the state of data warehouse market and outlines use cases for hybrid on-premises and cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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18 Jun 2020
Why the open source DBaaS market is hot
Open source database vendors face an array of challenges and opportunities as they flock to the cloud with new database-as-a-service platforms. Continue Reading
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16 Jun 2020
Apache Hudi grows cloud data lake maturity
The open source Apache Hudi project helps large organizations like Uber with stream processing capabilities that handle billions of records on data lakes every day. Continue Reading
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15 Jun 2020
5 steps to select the best IoT database
Organizations should begin their search for the right IoT database by understanding their data, functional requirements and how the database will fit into their business strategy. Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2020
Snowflake files for IPO after months of speculation
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake took a major step toward going public on Tuesday, filing an initial public stock offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2020
Yugabyte boosts distributed SQL database with new funding
The new CEO of Yugabyte, Bill Cook, explains why his distributed SQL database firm is growing as it raises its Series B round of funding with open source at the foundation. Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2020
MongoDB grows with Atlas Data Lake and mobile services
MongoDB updated its namesake open source database platform to version 4.4 and released data lake and mobile data offerings. Continue Reading
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05 Jun 2020
Data growth spawns enterprise data management system challenges
Enterprises are creating and using more data and storing more of it in the cloud. If they use that data strategically, they can improve business outcomes. Continue Reading
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28 May 2020
Couchbase sees a blurring line between cloud NoSQL and SQL
Matt Cain, president and CEO of Couchbase, explains why NoSQL is part of digital transformation efforts, as his company prepares to launch a database as a service. Continue Reading
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22 May 2020
Instaclustr CTO on open source database as a service
Ben Bromhead, co-founder and CTO of Instaclustr, provides insight into the state of the open source database-as-a-service market as COVID-19 changes priorities and traffic flows. Continue Reading
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18 May 2020
How a synthetic data approach is helping COVID-19 research
Israeli researchers are using a system developed by big data vendor MDClone to collaborate on COVID-19 data to help find ways to deal with the pandemic. Continue Reading
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13 May 2020
Redis Labs expands database to real-time data processing
Open source database vendor Redis Labs released RedisGears and RedisAI in an effort to expand the Redis platform beyond database to enable a real-time data processing system. Continue Reading
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12 May 2020
Cockroach Labs looks to accelerate cloud-native database
Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, talks about the distributed SQL database vendor and its future, with new financing and a new cloud-native database release. Continue Reading
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07 May 2020
ScyllaDB 4.0 brings DynamoDB to open source NoSQL database
After years of focusing on Apache Cassandra compatibility, ScyllaDB 4.0 now also is compatible with Amazon's DynamoDB, bringing new deployment options for users. Continue Reading
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06 May 2020
Confluent improves Kafka event streaming in the cloud
Confluent unveiled the first new capabilities of its Project Metamorphosis, designed to help users deploy and manage event streaming in the cloud. Continue Reading
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05 May 2020
Dremio accelerates cloud data lake queries for AWS
New features in the AWS Edition of Dremio's data lake engine make it easier for organizations to scale and manage data lake queries in the cloud. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2020
Couchbase automates cloud-native database management
New version of NoSQL database vendor Couchbase's Autonomous Operator brings more management to cluster administrators for automated cloud-native database deployments. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2020
Actian Avalanche Real-Time Connected Data Warehouse adds integration
Actian is expanding its Cloud Data Warehouse with data integration capabilities to enable users to onboard and search data from both cloud and on-premises data sources. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2020
Elastic expands data management efforts to workplace search
Elastic previewed a new search service that brings enterprise and software-as-a-service data sources together to help users find relevant data, where it resides. Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2020
How the GraphQL Foundation is enabling data graphs
The GraphQL Foundation has grown over the course of its first year as database and application developers adopt the API layer approach to connecting different data sources. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2020
How graph data science is helping the fight against COVID-19
Technology to rapidly correlate and connect disparate data sets in a knowledge graph is being used by German researchers and others in the fight against the coronavirus. Continue Reading
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03 Apr 2020
PlanetScale extends multi-cloud database as a service
Open source-based PlanetScaleDB adds support for Microsoft Azure, enabling a multi-cloud database as a service platform that supports the three major public cloud providers. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2020
Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud
Another Oracle database is coming to the cloud with the general availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service as the demand for database as a service continues to grow. Continue Reading
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01 Apr 2020
MariaDB SkySQL enables cloud-native database as a service
MariaDB brings back an old name for its cloud-native database-as-a-service platform. MariaDB CEO Michael Howard details how he's looking to compete against the big cloud providers. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2020
DataStax making Cassandra easier with Kubernetes Operators
New Kubernetes tool for the Apache Cassandra database is DataStax's attempt to create a broadly adopted approach for cloud native deployment. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2020
Rockset brings Query Lambdas to real-time database
Real-time cloud database looks to help better enable developers to build applications with Query Lambdas capabilities that execute queries and lookups from REST endpoint triggers. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2020
TigerGraph delivers no-code tools, free use for COVID-19 analysis
No-code tools that enable users to migrate to graph databases and model data for queries highlight TigerGraph 3.0. The vendor also extended free access to tools to track COVID-19. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2020
2nd Watch launches data-management-as-a-service offering
A new data management service from 2nd Watch aims to help organizations make data-driven decisions without having to rely on data scientists for their data preparation. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2020
DataStax takes aim at open source Cassandra challenges
DataStax has acquired open source Cassandra services firm The Last Pickle, adding in key tools that could help overcome enterprise database adoption challenges. Continue Reading
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21 Feb 2020
EnterpriseDB looks to grow market for PostgreSQL
Enterprises are increasingly using the open source PostgreSQL database. Read in this Q&A where the growth is coming from and how some of it is from users in the cloud. Continue Reading
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14 Feb 2020
Oracle Data Science efforts advance with new services
Oracle adds news new services to its cloud infrastructure platform in a bid to provide data scientists, as well as data analysts, with data management and query functionality. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
Incorta improves direct data mapping for data lakes
Bringing disparate sets of data into data lakes for data analytics hasn't always been easy. Incorta tries to do it with its new 4.6 platform update. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2020
Couchbase Cloud takes a new approach to database delivery
Open source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase enters the cloud database market with a database as a service that lets users choose which public cloud vendor they want to use. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2020
Neo4j 4.0 major update boosts graph database security, scalability
Major milestone release of open source graph database platform enhances security with controls to limit the risk of data traversal and add multi-database support. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2020
Pepperdata Query Spotlight provides insight into data queries
New Query Spotlight tool looks to provide visibility across a data analysis cluster into how a query performs over time and why it might have degraded performance. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2020
Where InfluxDB time series database is going
Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor created the Flux data scripting and query language. Continue Reading
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16 Jan 2020
MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database
Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional and analytical databases. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2020
New Oracle Enterprise Manager release advances hybrid cloud
Oracle updates its Enterprise Manager platform to version 13.4, bringing new hybrid management capabilities to database users across on-premises and cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2020
ArangoDB 3.6 accelerates performance of multi-model database
New release of multi-model database platform from ArangoDB introduces OneShard feature, along with other query optimization capabilities to help improve overall performance. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2020
NuoDB set to improve distributed SQL performance
Ariff Kassam, CTO of distributed SQL database vendor NuoDB, outlines how his company has embraced cloud native and hints about what's to come in the year ahead. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2019
Vendors move away from open source database software licensing
While open source is a key to success for many database vendors, it can also potentially lead to a competitive threat from a cloud scale provider. Continue Reading
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27 Nov 2019
4 requirements to choose the best enterprise IoT database
How should an IoT database differ from a traditional database? Learn what criteria databases need in order to handle the challenges that IoT technology brings with it. Continue Reading
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26 Nov 2019
Oracle looks to grow multi-model database features
Decade after decade, Oracle continues to be relevant in the database market as it pivots to include an expanding list of capabilities to serve users, notably cloud. Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2019
Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
Getting streaming data optimized to work inside of a database often involves disparate vendors and technologies, a challenge that Confluent aims to help fix. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2019
CockroachDB 19.2 improves distributed database performance
New release of CockroachDB cloud-native distributed database platform helps to reduce latency; it also gets enhanced data backup capabilities. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2019
Redis Labs eases database management with RedisInsight
Based on the open source RDBTools project, Redis Labs' new tool gives database administrators a stable graphical user interface for database management. Continue Reading