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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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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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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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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 Expands Cloud BigTable Replication Capabilities Globally in Beta
Google announced the expansion of Cloud BigTable's replication capabilities in Beta - providing customers with the flexibility to make their data available across a region or worldwide. Furthermore, the enhancements will allow customers to create a replicated cluster in any zone at any time.
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Uber Introduces AresDB: GPU-Powered, Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine
Uber recently introduced AresDB, an open-source real-time analytics engine leveraging an unconventional power source - graphics processing units (GPUs) - for meeting the growing demands of analysis at scale and at the same time unifying, simplifying and improving Uber’s existing solutions.
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FoundationDB's Record Layer Supports Relational Database Semantics, Schema Management and Indexing
FoundationDB NoSQL database's new Record Layer supports relational database semantics, schema management, primary and secondary indexes, and query capabilities. The FoundationDB team announced last month the open source release of the Record Layer.
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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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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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KubeCon 2018: The Return of SQL
Like many conferences, KubeCon 2018 has a variety of distributed database vendors. But what is unusual this year is every single one of them InfoQ talked to emphasized their support for SQL
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2018 Announcements
If you thought Amazon Web Services (AWS) might run out of services to launch, this year's re:Invent put that fear to rest. At the recently concluded event, AWS shared a flurry of announcements across a range of categories. re:Invent rarely has a "theme" for its announcements. But there was heavy attention on machine learning, databases, hybrid cloud, and account management.
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Agile Data Modeling for NoSQL Databases
Pascal Desmarets recently spoke at Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference about agile modeling and best practices for NoSQL databases.
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Concept and Object Modeling Notation for Data Modeling NoSQL Databases
Ted Hills hosted a workshop at the recent Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference about data modeling for relational and NoSQL databases. He said that the NoSQL movement helped the database community realize two things. First, not every application needs ACID properties. Second, the tabular data organization is still a good choice for much data, although not for all datasets.