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EdgeDB Seeks to Bring Relational Databases Out of the 1970s

Disco. Bell-bottom pants. Platform shoes. Relational database management systems. Some of us have soft spots for the 1970s. But if you’re EdgeDB CEO Yury Selivanov, you would prefer to put relational databases behind u 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…

AWS, Others Seen Moving Off Oracle Databases

The shift to open source database software is reportedly weakening Oracle and other traditional database vendors as major customers like Amazon ready lowest cost alternatives. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), which implemented a Read more…

Cloudera Releases Impala Into the Wild

The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future. Read more…

New Ropes for Scaling the SQL Wall

In the war being raged against big data there might not be a clear victor in the SQL and NoSQL camps. In fact, some have made the argument that companies need both camps to scale into a new era and colonize the uncivilized masses of teeming, wild data—much of it galloping into real-time application engines. According to Splice Machine CEO, Monte Zweben there are... Read more…

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