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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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AWS Announces Redis 6 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features such as Managed Role-Based Access Control, Client-Side caching and some significant operational improvements.
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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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Q&A about New Governance for Redis after Maintainer Salvatore Sanfilippo Steps Down
InfoQ caught up with Redis core team members and chief architect at Redis Labs, Yossi Gottlieb, and senior software architect at Redis Labs, Oran Agra, about the new governance board and the future of Redis.
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Couchbase Announces the General Availability of Its Cloud Database on AWS
Recently Couchbase announced the general availability of Couchbase Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). The Cloud NoSQL service is currently available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure and Google will follow by the end of the year.
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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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Microsoft Announces a New Pricing Model Option for Azure Cosmos DB and More Capabilities
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced a new consumption-based pricing model for Azure Cosmos DB called 'serverless' that is ideal for spiky workloads and complements the existing provisioned throughput pricing model.
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Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims
In an article, MongoDB claimed their database passed “the industry’s toughest data safety, correctness, and consistency Tests”. In response, Jepsen published an article stating that MongoDB 3.6.4 had in fact failed their tests; the newer MongoDB 4.2.6 has more problems including “retrocausal transactions” where a transaction reverses order so that a read can see the result of a future write.
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Redis Labs Partners with Microsoft to Deliver a New Redis Cache for Developers
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Redis Labs to deliver Redis Enterprise as newly, fully integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis. The enhanced service offering, currently in private preview, will provide customers with two new Enterprise tiers.
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Google Updates Cloud Spanner with New Features: Backup on Demand, Local Emulator, and More
In a recent blog post, Google announced a slew of new features for Cloud Spanner. The public cloud provider released the service with new updates including the managed backup-restore feature, foreign key support, query optimizer versioning feature, a C++ client library, and a local emulator.
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Splice Machine Data Platform 3.0 Supports Kubernetes Managed Service and New ML Manager
The latest version of distributed SQL data platform Splice Machine supports a new Kubernetes managed service, new version of Machine Learning Manager (v2.0), and automatic in-database model deployment.
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Dynein – an Asynchronous Background Job Service from Airbnb
At Airbnb, they move time consuming, resource intensive tasks over to asynchronous background jobs to improve scalability. The job scheduling system has become a very important component and they have therefore built Dynein, a distributed delayed job queueing service and scheduler. In a blog post, Andy Fang from Airbnb describes the background and challenges in designing and building the service.
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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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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Introducing Jakarta NoSQL
Recently approved as an EE4J project, Jakarta NoSQL is a specification in Jakarta EE to help developers create enterprise-grade applications using Java and NoSQL technologies. JNoSQL is the reference implementation of Jakarta NoSQL, providing a set of APIs and a standard implementation for a series of NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, neo4J, CouchDB, and OrientDB, among others.
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