Tag: databases
Aug 2, 2019 |
The first ever Distributed SQL Summit will be held on September 20, 2019, in San Jose, California. The summit, which is hosted by YugaByte, aims to bring together industry leaders to share best practices and technical knowledge on the distributed SQL approach. Read more…
Jul 29, 2019 |
Cloud giants continue to snap up data management and security startups as they add new capabilities aimed at enterprise customers in the midst of digital transitions.
The latest example is Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: Read more…
May 29, 2019 |
More evidence is emerging that “data workers” in general and data scientists in particular are bogged down by the sheer breadth of their company’s data.
Meanwhile, the skills gap between data experts and line-of-business workers continues to grow. Read more…
May 15, 2019 |
RavenDB, the open-source transactional NoSQL document database vendor, has added data replication and other features to the latest release along with the ability to handle graph queries.
Along with “pull” data replications, RavenDB 4.2 released this week adds a distributed online counters capability that can be used, for example, to support real-time apps that track “likes” and “favorites.” Distributed counters are used to support more frequent counter updates. Read more…
Feb 27, 2019 |
Intellectual property continues to be the coin of the realm for technology companies, and in few data-driven industries is this truer than the booming field of machine learning.
In its annual canvas of the fastest growing technologies, IFI Claims Patent Services reports that machine learning was again among the hottest commodities based on the number of patent applications. Read more…
Jan 28, 2019 |
Leading technology companies continue to snap up big data startups spawned by open-source technologies. The latest example is Microsoft’s deal to acquire open-source database specialist Citus Data.
In a separate deal last week, the big data analytics arm of French aerospace giant Thales (OTCMKTS: Read more…
Jan 24, 2019 |
New reports have emerged of expanding security threats targeting cloud-based Hadoop and YARN instances, including more sophisticated attacks described as “multi-vector/multi-platform threats.”
Securonix, a security analytics and operations management platform vendor, said this week it is monitoring persistent malicious attacks affecting exposed cloud and server infrastructure. Read more…
May 29, 2018 |
Databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL are increasingly being supported by application container infrastructure, signaling a shift to stateful services running in containers, according to a Docker container usage report. Read more…
Jan 11, 2018 |
Bucking the trend toward open source databases, cloud vendors continue to promote proprietary graph databases that combine the ability to handle multiple data models with the distribution of data across different cloud regions. Read more…
Dec 6, 2017 |
The push for operational analytics that seeks to eliminate the requirement for constantly moving data between storage and databases to support transaction and analytical workloads is fueling the growth of translytical data platforms. Read more…
