Tag: NoSQL
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…
Vendors Compete to Make Serverless NoSQL in the Cloud Drop-Dead Simple
You will soon be able to get started on a serverless instance of MongoDB in the AWS cloud without spending a dime, and use the NoSQL database on a pay-as-you-go basis, the company announced this week at re:Invent. Not to Read more…
Apache Cassandra 4.0 Launches
Nearly six years after the 3.0 release of Apache Cassandra NoSQL database in November 2015 – and more than a year since it launched into beta – Apache Cassandra 4.0 has finally released to general customers. Apache C Read more…
Couchbase Pops in Stock Market Debut
NoSQL database maker Couchbase went public today with an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, successfully selling millions of shares at $24 a pop, slightly above the range it gave earlier. B Read more…
There’s a NoSQL Database for That
While relational databases still dominate IT budgets, many new development projects are turning to NoSQL databases, which have emerged in recent years to serve all sorts of interesting use cases. Relational databases wil Read more…
MongoDB Automates Resharding, Adds Time-Series Support
Resharding a distributed database is among the most time-consuming tasks that DBAs are asked to perform. But that pain may be a thing of the past, at least with MongoDB’s database, which brings a new automated reshardi Read more…
Off the Couch: Database Maker Seeks $160 Million In IPO
Couchbase plans to sell 7 million shares at about $20 to $23 each, netting the NoSQL database vendor about $160 million for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), the company announced today. The Santa Clara, Cal Read more…
Aerospike Turbocharges Spark ML Training with Pushdown Processing
Companies that need to access a lot of data in a hurry, such as retraining a machine learning model in Spark, have traditionally had to move that data from the edge to a central repository, such as a cloud data lake. But Read more…
Redis Nabs $110 Million in VC Funding as Deployments Grow
Following the latest Series G round of funding in the amount of $110 million, NoSQL database vendor Redis Labs is worth more than $2 billion, the company announced today. That additional venture funding will help the com Read more…
Microsoft Extends Cassandra Rings with NoSQL Database Preview
Microsoft today announced the public preview of a new Cassandra database service for Azure Cosmos DB. The service, called Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, extends previous work that Microsoft did with Cassand Read more…
How Modern Data Strategies Underpin the Digital Identity and Authentication Practices Critical to Digital Transformation
The coming year — 2021 — will move digital customer experiences one giant leap forward, where there’s no need to appear in person to get things done. Virtually every enterprise is accelerating digital transformatio Read more…
Aerospike’s Presto Connector Goes Live
Aerospike’s connector to the Presto SQL query engine is transitioning from beta to general availability, the real-time NoSQL database vendor said this week. Presto, the highly parallel and distributed SQL query engi Read more…
Knowi Aims to ‘Elevate’ Answers Within Slack
Business intelligence software company Knowi today launched Elevate, a new offering that’s designed to help non-technical users ask questions of data through the company’s unified analytics platform. The software use Read more…
NoSQL Database Smackdown Takes to the Clouds
Customers want to get the most bang for their database buck, no matter whether they live on premise or in the cloud. However, as databases move to the cloud, performance and cost can be impacted in different ways. Now a Read more…
Aerospike Simplifies Global Data Management with NoSQL Update
Many large, global companies struggle to maintain centralized control of customer data while simultaneously adhering to country-specific data regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA. Now Aerospike is addressing that challenge Read more…
The Shifting Landscape of Database Systems
3T Software Labs, the company behind the MongoDB NoSQL database tool Studio 3T, has released its 2020 MongoDB Trends Report. The report, which is compiled from four years of interviews and surveys with more than 18,000 d Read more…
Cassandra Adoption Correlates with Experience
The Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is predominantly used by companies that have taken off the training wheels and forged ahead with aggressive digital initiatives, a usage survey finds. The 2020 adoption report relea Read more…
MongoDB Steps Up Game with MongoDB Cloud
First there was Atlas, MongoDB’s hosted database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering for public clouds. Now the company is launching MongoDB Cloud, an amalgamation of a range of MongoDB products and services that includes At Read more…
Couchbase Nabs $105M as it Readies Cloud Offering
Armed with $105 million in fresh venture funding, NoSQL vendor Couchbase is ramping up to make a big splash in the cloud, which has become the new battleground for databases. While gunning for cloud NoSQL supremacy, the 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…