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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…
When MQTT Falls Down: 5 Common Pitfalls in UNS Design
The Unified Namespace (UNS) is here to stay. In concept, it’s a single location that represents the real-time state of your factory, using open standards. Evangelized by Walker Reynolds, President of 4.0 Solutions and Read more…
Getting the Upper Hand on the Unstructured Data Problem
Unstructured data accounts for the vast majority of data stored in the world today, and it’s growing at a geometric rate. Organizations today may have petabytes of the stuff spread around various object stores and file Read more…
MongoDB Targets Analytics with V6.0
MongoDB held its annual user conference this week, which means database customers have been inundated with new features and capabilities. Some of the most compelling enhancements unveiled at MongoDB World revolve around Read more…
Looker Founder Helps Create New Data Exploration Language, Malloy
Lloyd Tabb is keeping busy since Looker was sold to Google back in 2019. The latest open source project for the prolific computer scientist and his Google team is Malloy, a new language that’s based on SQL but which Ta Read more…
Aerospike Adds JSON Support, Preps for Fast, Multi-Modal Future
The addition of JSON support in Aerospike Database version 6 shows that Aerospike is not afraid to go head-to-head with bigger database vendors in the NoSQL market. The addition of performance enhancements to secondary i Read more…
MongoDB Launches Pay-As-You-Go Option on GCP
Companies that are hesitant to enter into long-term relationships with their database vendor may be interested in the new pay-as-you-go option MongoDB announced today on the Google Cloud Platform. The new MongoDB Atla Read more…
Couchbase Advances Case for Becoming Your System of Record
By making its database look and behave more like a traditional relational database with today’s launch of Couchbase Server 7.0, Couchbase is giving companies a reason to leave their Oracle systems and power their most Read more…
Graph Database ‘Shapes’ Data
A semantic graph database technology vendor is supporting a key specification designed to validate graph-based data against a set of conditions that specify the “shape” of data. The goal is a more agile way of analyz Read more…
AWS Debuts PartiQL for Query Agnosticism
Amazon Web Services last week debuted partiQL, a new query language that's agnostic to the type of database, format, or model that the underlying data is stored in. The language, which is based on SQL++, can be used to q Read more…
Funders Target Flexible Graph Databases
The graph database ecosystem continues to expand with new venture funding for Dgraph Labs Inc., a transactional and distributed graph database startup. The San Francisco-based startup announced an $11.5 million Series Read more…
Amazon GAs Textract, Its New Machine Learning-Based OCR Service
Companies that rely on optical character recognition (OCR) to digitize the content of printed forms may be interested in Textract, a new machine learning-based OCR service that just became available from Amazon Web Servi Read more…
The Polyglot Problem: Solving the Paradox of the ‘Right’ Database
Polyglot Persistence, first introduced in 2011, is now almost canon law in IT. So, what I have to say may come across as blasphemy. Most organizations today have adopted the concept of Polyglot Persistence -- deployin Read more…
Rockset, SQL Cloud Service, Emerges from Stealth
An analytics and search startup launched by former Facebook engineers emerged from stealth mode this week with a cloud service that “runs SQL directly on raw data,” offering developers a quicker path from data to app Read more…
How SQL++ Makes JSON More Queryable
For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn't "speak SQL." But no Read more…
Couchbase to Deliver Parallel JSON Analytics — Without the ETL
Couchbase yesterday unveiled a JSON-native analytics engine it claims will let users perform parallel ad-hoc analytics on operational data just milliseconds after it's landed in the NoSQL store. The Analytics Service, wh Read more…
MongoDB Cloud Cases: Three Studies
During the recently MongoDB World conference, Datanami was invited to talk shop with three customers – Braze, Ticketek, and Longbow Advantage – that have implemented the NoSQL database in production cloud environment Read more…
SQL Database Adds GDPR Compliance Tools
The big data startup Cockroach Labs is itself targeting startups and multinational companies hustling to comply with pending European data governance rules with a new version of its open-source SQL database. The 2.0 v Read more…
MongoDB Looks to Future Following IPO
MongoDB CEO and President Dev Ittycheria rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite this morning as shares in the local New York City company started trading under the ticker symbol MDB. With about $200 million in pr Read more…
The New Math Driving NoSQL Analytics
NoSQL databases are extremely popular among developers thanks to their flexible schemas and rich data types like JSON. But those same attributes make getting data out of them using traditional SQL queries a real pain. No Read more…
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