Database management
As the volume of business data has grown, database management has become vital to data optimization and security. Database management are processes that ensure proper application performance, avoid compliance risk and protect valuable business data. Read database management strategies to make sure data is controlled throughout its lifecycle, from creation to deletion.
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10 Apr 2024
Cloud database security: Best practices, challenges and threats
If your company is using a cloud database, it's critical to stay on top of security. Review the security features offered by top cloud providers, plus some best practices. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2024
Google Cloud to inject Gemini into data, analytics tools
The tech giant unveiled integrations between its LLM and BigQuery, Looker and its databases to provide customers with a foundation for developing GenAI models and applications. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Starburst boosts data lake connections and fault tolerance
The data lake query vendor is bringing new features to its platform to optimize queries with the open source Trino query engine across multiple formats and sources. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Alluxio 2.8 improves data orchestration platform security
Open source-based data platform provider Alluxio is updating its namesake technology with enhanced Amazon S3 support and improved security for cloud data access. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Hasura enables GraphQL joins for data federation
Connecting multiple GraphQL services is a new feature in the Hasura 2.6 update that helps organizations unify multiple data sources in a data federation. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse scales data operations
The data warehouse vendor is targeting enterprises that need to use a trillion rows of data or more for analysis, with hyperscale technology that is now ready for broader adoption. Continue Reading
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26 Apr 2022
Akamai goes DBaaS with Linode Managed Database service
The Linode Managed Database service is set to debut, bringing support for the MySQL database and expanding support to include PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB in the coming months. Continue Reading
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25 Apr 2022
How to set up a MySQL database in Linux
Learn to prepare for a SQL-based Linux database, create a new database and create database users with permissions. This enables you to work with many other services. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2022
Databricks aims data lakehouse at media and entertainment
Gaming vendor Sega is using the data vendor's technology to unify its data for sales as well as game balancing to enable players to get the best experience. Continue Reading
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20 Apr 2022
Oracle boosts Exadata Cloud Infrastructure with X9M
New hardware is coming to the tech giant's cloud service for database workloads, with the Exadata X9M for more compute and storage to provide increased performance and scale. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2022
Confluent secures event data streaming in cloud update
The vendor's Q2 2022 cloud update provides more precise security access control to help organizations better secure, scale and manage the Apache Kafka-based technology platform. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2022
Databricks fuels analytics for Spain's top soccer league
After prioritizing data-driven decision-making over the last decade, LaLiga is now using Databricks to inform its clubs and fans about play on the field. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2022
Arcion brings change data capture platform to the cloud
Getting data out of one system and into another in the right format as quickly as possible is a challenge the Arcion Cloud service is aiming to address for organizations. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2022
NetApp acquires Instaclustr for database as a service
Instaclustr is being acquired by NetApp in a bid to the help the vendor grow beyond its on-premises storage roots into the bustling market for cloud software as a service. Continue Reading
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06 Apr 2022
MongoDB 5.3 enhances time series data capabilities
MongoDB is continuing to grow its multimodel database capabilities, adding the ability to help users with gap filling for missing data sets, in the new 5.3 release. Continue Reading
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05 Apr 2022
Databricks enables Delta Live Tables in data lakehouse
Databricks is looking to make it easier for users to build data pipelines to extract, transform and load data from any source using a Spark SQL data query. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2022
Swim Continuum advances event streaming data intelligence
The vendor is continuing to build out its technology aimed at enabling organizations to build applications that use real-time data to improve operations. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2022
Oracle HeatWave ML fuses machine learning with database
The tech giant is continuing to build out the capabilities of its MySQL HeatWave cloud database with real-time elasticity, performance boosts and machine learning integration. Continue Reading
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29 Mar 2022
Pinecone raises $28M to advance vector database
The startup's database technology enables enterprises to use traditional data stores alongside vector-based data to support advanced data queries and search. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2022
DataStax Astra DB integrates real-time data streaming
The database-as-a-service vendor advanced the change data capture capabilities of its cloud database with technology from its Apache Pulsar-based streaming service. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2022
PlanetScale eases serverless database schema migration
The database-as-a-service platform vendor looks to make it easier for developers to build data-driven applications and revert schema changes when needed. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2022
StarTree brings Apache Pinot real-time database to the cloud
The open source Apache Pinot OLAP data store is set to become easier to deploy, manage and operate in the cloud with improved data ingestion and data observability capabilities. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2022
Jitsuin rebrands as RKVST for blockchain data assurance
The RKVST platform supports multiple types of blockchain data applications, including secured SBOM data sharing for cybersecurity. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2022
Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database lands on Exadata systems
The tech giant now enables users of the Exadata Cloud at Customer service to run multiple types of the vendor's fully managed and unmanaged databases on the same hardware. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2022
Redis launches JSON database capabilities with RedisJSON 2.0
The data platform vendor is growing beyond its data caching roots to support more data types and full database capabilities that integrate with RediSearch indexing technology. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2022
Fauna brings real-time streaming to serverless database
The ability to directly subscribe to real-time updates is the latest feature for the Fauna database that can help developers quickly bring data to applications. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2022
Instaclustr to support Karapace open source schema registry
Instaclustr is joining rival Aiven in an effort to support an open source technology that brings REST proxy and schema technology to Kafka event streaming. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2022
Databricks extends data lakehouse platform to healthcare
Healthcare data exists in widely varying formats. Getting it into a data lake where it can be used for analytics and machine learning is a challenge Databricks is looking to meet. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2022
DataStax scales K8ssandra for cloud-native Cassandra
The real-time data vendor is out with a new release of its K8ssandra Kubernetes operator that enables organizations to deploy, configure and run the Apache Cassandra database. Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2022
Fannie Mae, Mercedes-Benz detail data lake platform uses
At the Subsurface Winter 2022 virtual conference, several organizations including Fannie Mae and Mercedes-Benz explained why and how they are using Dremio's data lake engine. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2022
Directus brings Open Data Platform technology to the cloud
The vendor's new managed cloud service is designed to enable organizations to connect applications, business intelligence and websites to data sources and databases. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2022
Dremio opens up data lakehouse with new engine
The data lakehouse vendor is expanding its cloud platform with a new SQL query engine and data metastore for data lakes that builds on top of the Apache Iceberg table format. Continue Reading
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01 Mar 2022
Imply Polaris brings Apache Druid database to the cloud
Imply's new Polaris cloud database services builds on the open source Druid technology, with integrated data ingestion capabilities and a new multi-stage query engine. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2022
SentinelOne reboots Scalyr as enterprise data platform
The cybersecurity vendor launches DataSet as a separate technology service from its core cybersecurity platform to help organizations manage and query large volumes of data. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2022
MetLife improves efficiency with Tibco Data Virtualization
The insurance giant's investment management division has reduced its data integration process from weeks to hours since adopting the analytics vendor's technology in 2017. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
operational data store (ODS)
An operational data store (ODS) is a type of database that's often used as an interim logical area for a data warehouse. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
Couchbase Mobile 3 brings NoSQL database to the edge
The vendor looks to integrate an edge-to-cloud database architecture with a new release that provides developers with tools to manage distributed database deployments. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2022
Voltron Data takes aim at data management with Apache Arrow
CEO and co-founder Josh Patterson outlines the promise of the new language-agnostic data analytics development framework and why the vendor is raising big money to support it. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2022
multidimensional database (MDB)
A multidimensional database (MDB) is a type of database that is optimized for data warehouse and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications. Continue Reading
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17 Feb 2022
Hyperledger expands open source blockchain efforts
The CTO of a major blockchain group provides insight into the growing effort to build open source blockchain technologies for enterprises, though challenges remain. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2022
ArangoDB 3.9 scales graph database operations
The open source graph database vendor released a new version of its platform with new features to enable users to better deal with the challenges of growing data workloads. Continue Reading
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15 Feb 2022
InfluxData expands time series database capabilities
The open source-based InfluxDB platform is adding capabilities to better handle data coming from industrial sensors and devices that enable organizations to optimize operations. Continue Reading
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15 Feb 2022
Databricks launches new lakehouse for financial services
The cloud data vendor's new set of capabilities for financial services customers is its second industry-specific lakehouse after it launched one for retail users in January. Continue Reading
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14 Feb 2022
Elastic 8.0 aims to enhance search relevance
Elastic is updating its flagship platform with a major release that adds enhanced vector search and natural language processing capabilities to improve data query results. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2022
Oracle Autonomous cloud database gains MongoDB API support
The tech giant continues to build out its multimodel database capabilities with the general availability of a new API for widely used MongoDB applications. Continue Reading
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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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07 Feb 2022
Analytics database vendor Exasol launches DBaaS on AWS
The OLAP database vendor now has a new cloud service model that provides users with a managed instance for data analysis, business intelligence and machine learning. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2022
Onehouse emerges with managed Apache Hudi data lake service
One of the original creators of the Hudi project at Uber has launched a new company set to bring a managed service to market to operationalize cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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01 Feb 2022
Open source database vendor MariaDB set for IPO
As cloud database-as-a-service demand grows, the open source-based relational database vendor is looking to go public, a decade after it was first forked from the MySQL database. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2022
Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database
Automated scalability is a key theme for the latest set of update features that Google is landing in its cloud managed NoSQL database service, providing users with more capacity. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2022
Apache Kafka 3.1 opens up data streaming for analytics
The latest release of open source Kafka data streaming technology brings a series of new features that provide users with usability improvements for real-time data queries. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2022
Dremio raises $160M for cloud data lake platform technology
The vendor is raising new money as demand for cloud data platform technology continues to grow as enterprises look to improve business intelligence and data analytics. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2022
MongoDB 5.2 database improves time series capabilities
The vendor is improving on capabilities introduced in MongoDB 5.0 with an update that continues the company's push to support operational and analytics workloads. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2022
Hudi powering data lake efforts at Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar
An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2022
Confluent Cloud Q1 2022 update boosts event data streaming
The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2022
Observable raises $35.6M for data collaboration platform
After spending 15 years at Google, Melody Meckfessel brought at least one key lesson to her data visualization startup Observable: 'no grumpy developers.' Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Graph
NoSQL graph databases focus on the relationships between pieces of data. Two common frameworks bring different advantages and disadvantages over other NoSQL database types. Continue Reading
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30 Dec 2021
5 challenges IT faces using open source data management
There are a variety of open source challenges for data management software, including lack of real-time BI access, miscalculating costs and underestimating the resources required. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Data management trends in 2021: More money, more cloud
In 2021, interest in the cloud data lakehouse model helped to propel multiple vendors forward as new serverless database-as-a-service systems emerged as well. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Cockroach Labs raises $278M for distributed SQL database
The cloud database vendor has appealed to enterprises with its data capabilities and continues to attract investors as the market opportunity expands. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2021
Vendia expands serverless blockchain data sharing platform
The Vendia Share service gets new features that enable more database-type capabilities, alongside smart contracts to support complex business rules. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2021
Why Criteo chose Aerospike real-time database
Criteo is in the process of migrating to Aerospike Database to reduce the number of servers it needs to power its global advertising marketplace from 5,000 to 600. Continue Reading
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06 Dec 2021
LogDNA raises $50M for observability data
The LogDNA CEO discusses challenges and the need for organizations to collect and analyze log data to enable operations, DevOps and security applications. Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2021
AWS cloud database users detail applications
AWS has more than one database to choose from, as the cloud provider aims to provide users like eHealth and HBO Max with technologies to meet different use cases. Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2021
AWS aims to ease cloud database management and migration
The tech giant is looking to help its users to better migrate to, manage and operate cloud databases with a series of new data management product releases and updates. Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2021
AWS Lake Formation advances cloud data lake control
AWS added new features to its cloud data lake service, featuring Governed Tables to manage consistency of data and row-level access control for security. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2021
Starburst Enterprise brings Apache Iceberg to data lakehouse
A new Starburst Enterprise release brings in new capabilities to help organizations use the Trino SQL query engine to analyze data stored on premises and in the cloud. Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2021
Hightouch raises $40M for reverse ETL data platform
Co-founder Kashish Gupta provides insight into the data challenges that led Hightouch to develop a new approach to getting data out of data warehouses and into operational tools. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2021
CockroachDB update scales distributed SQL database
The latest database release from Cockroach Labs focuses on providing optimized capabilities for large deployments that can handle up to a petabyte of data. Continue Reading
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16 Nov 2021
Alluxio accelerates data orchestration, raises $50M
Connecting disparate sources of data for analytics and machine learning gets faster in the vendor's latest platform update, released alongside a Series C funding round. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2021
GraphQL use grows as organizations build out a graph layer
Apollo GraphQL is updating its graph federation capabilities as its users outline how they are using the technology to enable data and service delivery to users. Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2021
Confluent Platform 7 extends event data streaming
The event data streaming vendor builds out hybrid event streaming deployment capabilities that can help organizations with data in the cloud and on premises. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
Deephaven extends real-time streaming data platform
Deephaven Data Labs has built a platform financial services organizations use to operationalize real-time data for queries and historical reporting of financial and client data. Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2021
Instaclustr open sources Shotover data layer proxy
The DBaaS vendor looks to enable developers to control and manage the flow of data from one data service to another with open source Shotover system. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
Monte Carlo boosts data pipeline observability insights
The startup continues to build out its namesake platform with new capabilities to provide organizations with visibility into how and where data pipelines are being used. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Document-based databases
NoSQL document-based databases store information in documents with specific keys, similar to a key-value store, but with different benefits and disadvantages. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2021
QuestDB grows time series database with $12M funding round
QuestDB co-founder and CEO details the use cases for the database platform and explains why the vendor is now raising money to grow the technology and market. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2021
Microsoft advances Cosmos DB and previews SQL Server 2022
Microsoft is continuing to build out its cloud data services capabilities, including connecting SQL Service with data governance and analytics functions running in Azure. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2021
EDB launches BigAnimal PostgreSQL cloud database service
The database vendor is ramping up its cloud efforts with the initial release of its platform on Microsoft Azure, with plans for other public cloud providers in the coming months. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2021
InfluxDB users detail time series database use cases
InfluxData sees a lot of potential for its InfluxDB open source database, as the need to instrument and collect data from both physical and virtual sources continues to grow. Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2021
Yugabyte raises $188M to grow distributed SQL database
With support for both PostgreSQL and Cassandra, Yugabyte is scaling up to enabled distributed transactions with its open source-based technology platform. Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2021
Trino set to advance open source SQL query performance
The rebranding of PrestoSQL to Trino has been a boon to the open source effort, as new capabilities and adoption of the query technology are growing in 2021. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2021
CockroachDB introduces Serverless as a cloud database option
The database vendor added a serverless option for cloud database-as-a-service deployments. Aimed at developers, the serverless model follows a cloud-native development trend. Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2021
Aiven raises new funding as cloud data service demand grows
The open source cloud database-as-a-service platform vendor is seeing continued demand for Kafka as organizations increasingly need to use real-time data. Continue Reading
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19 Oct 2021
Couchbase Capella brings new managed DBaaS capabilities
The NoSQL database vendor launched a DBaaS platform providing a fully managed cloud database aimed at users who don't want to manage their own resources. Continue Reading
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12 Oct 2021
Google expands Cloud Spanner database with PostgreSQL
A year after it was first introduced, Google's BigQuery Omni multi-cloud data platform is now generally available as Google continues to push its data agenda in the cloud. Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2021
ArangoDB advances graph database fortunes with new funding
Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of ArangoDB, discusses why the vendor is raising money to meet the growing demand for graph database technology. Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2021
Ascend extends flex-code data connectors
The data platform vendor looks to enable organizations to more easily read and write data from different data sources with a new low-code connector framework. Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2021
PostgreSQL 14 improves open source database performance
The open source database has extended its JSON unstructured data support and enhanced its stored procedures capabilities to give users more database power. Continue Reading
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28 Sep 2021
HPE intros GreenLake data lakehouse fabric for analytics
HPE taps multiple open source technologies, including Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Delta Lake, for developing new data fabric services on its GreenLake cloud platform. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2021
The benefits and pitfalls of cloud-based data management systems
Learn the benefits of cloud-based data management systems, common pitfalls and strategies when considering varying data levels and industry needs. Continue Reading
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22 Sep 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Column-oriented databases
Learn about the uses of column-oriented databases and the large data model, data warehouses and high-performance querying benefits the NoSQL database brings to organizations. Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2021
Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud
Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates. Continue Reading
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15 Sep 2021
StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming
Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming. Continue Reading
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13 Sep 2021
Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud
To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2021
Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse
Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry. Continue Reading
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31 Aug 2021
Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra. Continue Reading
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27 Aug 2021
Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries
Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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20 Aug 2021
With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud
The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
NoSQL database types explained: Key-value store
Learn about the benefits and detriments of utilizing a key-value store -- a simply designed NoSQL database that can potentially improve data processing speeds and scalability. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
Apollo GraphQL raises $130M to enable graph layer
The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end. Continue Reading