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RavenDB 5 Improves Distributed Time-Series, Document Compression, and Indexing
RavenDB, a NoSQL document database with multi-document ACID transactions, adds distributed time-series support, smart document compression, and enhanced indexing in the RavenDB version 5 release.
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DataStax Announces Cloud Native Database as a Service and AIOps Tools
DataStax announced last month the release of Astra, a cloud-native Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) built on Apache Cassandra. They also recently announced an AIOps product called Vector that proactively monitors the health of Apache Cassandra clusters.
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Amazon Announces the Open Preview of a Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) on AWS
At the recent AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a new way of managing Cassandra databases on AWS. With Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), the public cloud vendor can offer Cassandra directly to customers instead of through third-party vendors.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachCloud, a Fully-Managed Distributed SQL Database in Beta
Recently, Cockroach Labs announced the beta program of CockroachCloud, a fully-managed service for its CockroachDB distributed SQL database. With CockroachCloud, customers can provision, scale and manage a complex, highly available distributed SQL database within minutes.
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Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements
Distributed SQL database NuoDB 4.0 supports Kubernetes Operator and indexing improvements. NuoDB released the latest version of the database that also supports Azure and Google Cloud Platform certification.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of Quantum Ledger Database
On September 10th, Amazon announced the general availability of Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a ledger database based on blockchain technology. As such, QLDB provides a fully managed ledger which can contain multiple tables, implementing an immutable transaction journal, which is cryptographically verifiable, and owned by a centralized trusted authority.
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Google Releases Enterprise Database Options, Targets SQL Server Customers
In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to their existing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) database investments, including Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server in alpha, Federated queries from BigQuery to Cloud SQL and Elastic Cloud on GCP being available in Japan and soon to be released in Sydney, Australia.
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Percona XtraDB and MongoDB Operators for Kubernetes
Percona announced the release of Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB and Percona Server for MongoDB. Percona, a database software company, designed the XtraDB and MongoDB operators to remove the burden of repetitive tasks and provide consistency and reliability in a Kubernetes environment.
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Xiaoya Wei on Airbnb's Knowledge Graph
Airbnb's knowledge graph encodes information about their inventory and the world in a graph structure. This structure is based on a hierarchical taxonomy. InfoQ caught up with Xiaoya Wei, software engineer at Airbnb, regarding their knowledge graph and how it helps them categorize their inventory and deliver travel context to their users.
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Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available
Google announced that their NoSQL database in the cloud Cloud Firestore is now generally available. With the release, Google is also introducing a few new features, such as a StackDriver integration, bringing the service to more regions, and offering a lower pricing tier.
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AWS Launches New Document-Oriented Database Compatible with MongoDB
AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a scalable, highly-available managed service. While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB is not running MongoDB software, which caused hand-wringing among some tech watchers.
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Google Updates Cloud Spanner: Query Introspection, New Regions, and New Multi-Region Configurations
In a recent blog post, Google announced a few enhancements for Cloud Spanner - a globally distributed NewSQL database. Based on customer requests, Google updated the service with query introspection improvements, new region availability, and new multi-region configurations.
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Building Resilience in Netflix Production Data Migrations: Sangeeta Handa at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Sangeeta Handa discussed how Netflix had learned to build resilience into production migrations across a number of use cases. Key lessons learned included: aim for perceived or actual zero downtime, even for data migrations; invest in early feedback loops to build confidence; find ways to decouple customer interactions from your services; and build independent checks and balances.
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DigitalOcean Announces Managed Databases
DigitalOcean has announced their new Managed Databases offering, providing fully hosted and managed database engines. This new service is currently in the beta stadium, for which access can now be requested. Currently Managed Databases offers the PostgreSQL engine, with others to come later.
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Amazon Announces Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon has announced managed databases for Lightsail, their lightweight and simplified virtual private server offering. The addition of managed databases intends to allow the creation of these databases on the Lightsail platform with a minimal amount of work, and removes several everyday maintenance tasks from the user.