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MongoDB 8.0 Now Available with Performance Gains and Enhanced Sharding
MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and new features. Highlights include embedded sharding configuration servers, expanded support for queryable encryption, and the capability to move collections across shards without requiring a shard key.
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Google Proposes Adding Pipe Syntax to SQL
In a recent paper titled "SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them", a research team at Google proposed the introduction of a new Pipe Syntax in SQL. Google's solution to address perceived limitations in SQL is currently available in the GoogleSQL and ZetaSQL dialects, but it has received mixed feedback from the community.
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Concerns Rise in Open-Source Community as CockroachDB Ends Core Free Edition
CockroachDB Labs has recently announced a change to the license model of their distributed SQL database, discontinuing the free Core version and making the Enterprise version the only option. Having previously moved away from an open-source license, this latest change has raised further questions in the community about the future of open-source solutions managed by a single vendor.
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Amazon MemoryDB Provides Fastest Vector Search on AWS
AWS recently announced the general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB, the managed in-memory database with Multi-AZ availability. The new capability provides ultra-low latency and the fastest vector search performance at the highest recall rates among vector databases on AWS.
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Google Cloud Enhances Spanner with Dual-Region Configuration
Google Cloud has introduced a significant update to its fully-managed distributed SQL database service, Spanner, which now offers a dual-region configuration option. The company aims with this enhancement to assist enterprises in complying with data residency norms across countries with limited cloud support while ensuring high availability.
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Google Introduces Free Trial for AlloyDB PostgreSQL Database
Google has announced a free trial program for AlloyDB, its fully-managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service. The trial allows users to test AlloyDB's capabilities with their own workloads for up to 30 days. AlloyDB is designed to provide high performance, scalability, and reliability, while maintaining full compatibility with open-source PostgreSQL.
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AWS Discontinues Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
AWS recently announced that new customers can no longer sign up for Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a managed service providing an immutable transaction log maintained by a central trusted authority. All existing databases will be shut down in one year, and current users are encouraged to migrate to Aurora PostgreSQL.
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Google Cloud Introduces Geo-Partitioning for Spanner: Reduced Latency and Cost Optimization
Google Cloud has announced adding geo-partitioning to Spanner, its fully-managed, globally distributed database. According to the company, this new feature aims to improve performance and user experience for geographically dispersed applications and users while optimizing operational costs.
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MySQL 9.0 Innovation Release Now Available
On July 1st, Oracle announced the release of MySQL 8.0.38, the initial update for the 8.4 Long Term Support (LTS) series, and the inaugural MySQL 9.0 release. The Innovation release introduces new features, such as vector and JavaScript support. In contrast, the two LTS releases focus on stability, providing security updates, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
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Time Series Database QuestDB 8.0 Improves SQL Performance and Adds ZFS Compression
Version 8 of QuestDB, an open-source time series database designed for high-performance and efficient handling of time series data, has been released. This release includes a new VARCHAR data type as a default (over STRING) that aims to provide better compression and performance, a 50% improvement for SQL query performance, and data compression via system-level ZFS
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Pinterest Shuts down One of the World's Largest HBase Deployments
The engineering team at Pinterest recently deprecated their HBase clusters due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities. Following Pinterest’s move to TiDB and other database technologies, the community questions whether this is another sign of the decline of the non-relational database that runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS.
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Running PostgreSQL in the Browser with WebAssembly
With the recently released PGlite, a WASM build of Postgres that is packaged into a TypeScript client library, developers can run Postgres queries in the browser with no extra dependencies. PGlite is used for reactive, real-time, local-first apps.
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.
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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.