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AWS Takes On Google Spanner with Atomic Clock-Powered Distributed DBs
AWS today announced two new database services aimed at providing low-latency data processing that can support transactions anywhere on the globe. The new services, including the Postgres-flavored Aurora DSQL and DynamoDB Read more…
Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns
How we store and serve data are critical factors in what we can do with data, and today we want to do oh-so much. That big data necessity is the mother of all invention, and over the past 20 years, it has spurred an imme Read more…
Putting Your Data On the Table
One of the big breakthroughs in data engineering over the past seven to eight years is the emergence of table formats. Typically layered atop column-oriented Parquet files, table formats like Apache Iceberg, Delta, and A Read more…
TikTok Parent Open Sources Real-Time Data Warehouse
You might not yet be a major TikTok influencer, but you can still analyze data like TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, which recently released its real-time data warehouse architecture as open source. ByConity, the Read more…
Cloudera Sees Iceberg Everywhere
Cloudera gave its hybrid cloud customers a big boost today when it announced on-prem support for the Apache Iceberg table format. The move gives customers the capability to access and process on-prem data with any Iceber Read more…
Cassandra to Get ACID Transactions via New Accord Consensus Protocol
The next release of Apache Cassandra, the super-scalable NoSQL database backed by DataStax, will gain support for ACID transactions, thereby opening it up for more demanding use cases. The method that will enable transac Read more…
Cloudera Picks Iceberg, Touts 10x Boost in Impala
Cloudera is now supporting the open source Apache Iceberg table format in its cloud data platform, or lakehouse, the vendor announced yesterday. The move will help to ensure transactional integrity in the big data enviro Read more…
AWS Working to Scale Aurora DB Writes Globally, Like Spanner
AWS is currently working to add global-scale transaction processing technology to its Postgres-compatible Aurora database service, which would give the likes of Google Cloud’s Spanner and Cockroach Labs a run for their Read more…
Splicing a Pause Button into Cloud Machines
Splice Machine develops a machine learning-enabled SQL database that is based on a closely engineered collection of distributed components, including HBase, Spark, and Zookeeper, not to mention H2O, TensorFlow, and Jupyt Read more…
Can Yugabyte Modernize the Database Layer? Bill Cook Thinks So
It’s a conundrum that many database startups have yet to solve: Why does Oracle continue to dominate the space if its relational database is so out of step with the times? The software vendor that cracks the code will Read more…
Aerospike Delivers Multi-Site Clustering in DB 5
Aerospike today announced support for multi-site clustering in version 5 of its eponymous NoSQL database, giving customers the capability to deploy a single database across multiple geographically dispersed data centers Read more…
Cockroach Snags $87 million to Grow Cloud Database Biz
Cockroach Labs founder and CEO Spencer Kimball has a gaudy goal: to have CockroachDB power the next generation of Ubers and Googles. With today’s $86.6 million Series D funding round complete, he’s one step closer to Read more…
Cockroach Labs Ready for Primetime with Scale-Out Database
Until recently, companies that need a distributed, ACID-compliant relational database to power global transactions didn't have a lot of options. There was Google Spanner and not much else. But now a group distributed sys Read more…
The Critical Element for a Successful Digital Transformation? HTAP Powered by In-Memory Computing
Many of today’s digital transformation and omnichannel customer experience initiatives demand real-time analysis of data. For example, banks need to analyze transactions across their systems in real time to detect and Read more…
Has FaunaDB Cracked the Code for Global Transactionality?
An organization that wants to power a transactional application using a single database that spans multiple data centers around the world without giving up ACIDity has few good options. One solution is Google Spanner, bu Read more…
Flink Delivers ACID Transactions on Streaming Data
The folks behind Apache Flink just delivered something you may not have realized you needed: ACID guarantees in a stream processing framework. According to data Artisans, its new Streaming Ledger offering could even repl Read more…
MongoDB Fleshes Out Mobile and Cloud Strategies
As its name implies, MongoDB likes to do big things. But with today's unveiling of MongoDB Mobile at MongoDB World in New York City, the company is delivering a diminutive database that runs on mobile devices. It also an Read more…
NoSQL Startup FaunaDB Has Twitter Roots
A Bay Area startup touting a transactional NoSQL database has disclosed early investments by financial services backers and Google’s investment arm. Fauna Inc. claimed Wednesday (March 21) its $25 million Series A f Read more…
Full ACID Support Means ‘Game Over’ for Relational, MongoDB Says
MongoDB today revealed that it's now supporting multi-document ACID transaction guarantees with version 4.0 of its database. When it becomes generally available later this year, MongoDB says it will have eliminated the l Read more…
Aerospike Now Offers Strong Consistency with NoSQL Database
Aerospike's speedy NoSQL database has traditionally been used to power applications where high performance matters more than data correctness. With yesterday's unveiling of a fourth version of the database, Aerospike add Read more…
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