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The Future of Databases Is Now

Databases--those workhorses of data management--have come a long way over the past 10 years. Users no longer must accept the tradeoffs that were commonplace in 2013, and the array of features and capabilities in relation Read more…

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…

Three Ways Next Generation Graph Technologies Are Transforming the Banking Industry

For today’s modern bank, the ability to access and analyze data in real time is almost as important as its access to capital. However, the banking industry is facing a big “big data” problem: an enormous amount of Read more…

SingleStore is the Newest Data Unicorn with $116M Funding Round

SingleStore, provider of a popular relational database, has announced a $116 million extended Series F round led by Goldman Sachs. The company reported a nearly $1.3 billion valuation, launching it into unicorn status. 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…

PlanetScale Unveils Distributed MySQL Database Service Based on Vitess

PlanetScale today took the wraps off its new database as a service based on Vitess, the horizontally distributed branch of MySQL that was developed at YouTube. Folks who have struggled with eventual consistency and schem Read more…

Who’s Winning the Cloud Database War

Three-quarters of all databases will be deployed or migrated to the cloud within two years, Gartner said today in its much-anticipated report on cloud database management systems. The big cloud companies are winning thei 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…

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…

4 Apache Cassandra Pitfalls You Must Avoid

The distributed nature of Apache Cassandra – boasting an architecture that avoids any single point of failure – enables the open source database to deliver the high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful r Read more…

What Gartner Sees In Analytic Hubs

In the old days, companies would build their business intelligence strategies from the ground up, typically starting with a traditional data warehouse. But as the volume, trajectory, and types of data have exploded, comp Read more…

MemSQL Giving Away Database for Four-Node Clusters

Everybody likes free stuff. Today MemSQL announced that it's getting into the free software market by giving away copies of its distributed relational database management system for clusters up to four nodes and 128GB of Read more…

Data Warehouse Modernization and the Journey to the Cloud

To say that organizations today are facing a complex data landscape is really an understatement. Data exists in on-premises systems and in the cloud; data is used across applications and accessed across departments. I 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…

The Future of Storage: Software

In the previous story in this series, we looked at innovations occurring in storage hardware. Now it's time to turn our attention to what's going on in storage software, where innovation continues to push the boundaries Read more…

MemSQL Gains Traction, New Investors

MemSQL, the database vendor that touts its architecture as capable of handling both data analytics and transactions, announced a $30 million funding round led by, GV, the former Google Ventures. The hybrid SQL databas Read more…

Making Hadoop Relatable Again

There has been much debate over the future of Hadoop in recent months. Should it work more like a cloud object store? Should it support GPUs and FPGAs, Docker or Kubernetes (or both)? Should compute and storage be separa Read more…

Distributed PostgreSQL Settling Into Cloud

Organizations that want the scalability of a distributed PostgreSQL database but don't want the hassle of managing it themselves may be interested in the latest news from Citus Data, which today unveiled new options for Read more…

Looker’s Audacious Moonshot to Outgrow Oracle

You may have considered Looker to be just another business intelligence tool. After all, that's the bucket analysts at Forrester and Gartner put the company in. But talk a bit with its founder, Lloyd Tabb, and you quickl Read more…

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