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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports pgactive for Active-Active Replication
AWS recently announced the general availability of pgactive on RDS for PostgreSQL. The replication extension for PostgreSQL supports asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances, enhancing resiliency and flexibility.
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PlanetScale's Challenge to Oracle: Forking MySQL and Introducing Vector Search
PlanetScale recently announced the intention to fork MySQL adding vector search. While PostgreSQL has been the default open-source choice for vector search, the company behind the Vitess database wants to release a version of MySQL and PlanetScale with vector support.
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Scale Higher Per-Database Storage Limits and Create More Databases with Cloudflare D1 Open Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of its D1 serverless relational database built on SQLite. The open beta of D1 continues on earlier company investments, with the most recent enhanced performance. With the open beta of D1, the company adds higher per-database storage limits and the ability to create more databases.
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Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute free monthly.
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Google Cloud Unveils AlloyDB AI: Transforming PostgreSQL with Advanced Vector Embeddings and AI
During the recent Google Cloud Next, Google announced AlloyDB AI in preview as an integral part of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, allowing developers to build generative (gen) Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications leveraging large language models (LLMs) with their real-time operational data through built-in, end-to-end support for vector embeddings.
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Intra-Account Collection Copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB in Public Preview
Microsoft recently introduced the public preview of Intra-Account Collection Copy for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, allowing users to copy collections within the same account - offering enhanced data management and migration capabilities.
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External REST Endpoint Invocation in SQL Azure Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture
InfluxData recently unveiled the system architecture for InfluxDB 3.0, its newest time-series DB. Its architecture encompasses four major components responsible for data ingestion, querying, compaction, and garbage collection and includes two main storage types. The architecture caters to operating the DB on-premise and natively on major cloud providers.
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Oracle Data Provider for .Net: Asynchronous Programming, OpenTelemetry, and More
Oracle prereleased a new version of Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET), its ADO.NET data access library for the Oracle database. The new version, 23c, is available as a Developer Release, which means it is still not ready for production use. However, it already brings two of the most highly community-requested features: asynchronous programming and support to OpenTelemetry.
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MySQL Changes Versioning Model, Adds Innovation and LTS Releases
Oracle recently announced a change in the versioning model for MySQL, introducing the MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases. The first innovation release is MySQL 8.1.0 , which includes InnoDB cluster read replicas.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds pgvector to Support Embeddings from Generative AI
AWS recently announced that the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search. Aurora is the latest managed PostgreSQL database supporting the open-source extension to store and search embeddings from machine learning models.
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Google Releases Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Google Cloud recently announced the Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition for MySQL and PostgreSQL of the managed database service. The new edition provides performance optimizations for read and write operations, improved machine types and configurations, and an integrated SSD–backed data cache option.
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Enhancing AI Capabilities: Google Cloud Integrates Vector Search in Managed Databases
Google Cloud recently added support for the pgvector on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. The extension brings vector search operations to the managed databases, allowing developers to store vector embeddings generated by large language models (LLMs) and perform similarity searches.
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Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte. With different implementation trade-offs, the results show a higher throughput for Azure Cosmos DB but highlight the challenges of benchmarking distributed databases.
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New Azure Cosmos DB Features to Boost Performance and Optimize Cost
Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution.