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Google Launches a New Serverless Database Migration Service
Recently, Google announced a new serverless Database Migrates Service (DMS) in preview. The service supports migrations of self-hosted MySQL databases, either on-premises or in the cloud, and managed databases from other clouds, to Cloud SQL for MySQL.
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Extending the Reach of SQL to IoT Microcontrollers, ITTIA and Cypress Release SDK
In a recent press release, ITTIA, a maker of embedded database software for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Cypress Semiconductor Corp, announced a collaborative IoT device and data management capability. The new capability integrates SQL into the WICED SDK and unlocks the power of flash media on Cypress wireless microcontrollers (MCU).
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Simplifying ETL in the Cloud, Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of their serverless, code-free Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capability inside of Azure Data Factory called Mapping Data Flows. This tool allows organizations to embrace a data-driven culture without the need to manage large infrastructure footprints while having the ability to dynamically scale data processing workloads.
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Microsoft Brings SQL to the Edge, Announces Azure SQL Database Edge
At the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced a new database offering, which brings SQL Server capabilities to edge computing. Officially called Azure SQL Database Edge, the service runs on ARM64 and x64 processors and provides capabilities such as data streaming, time series data, graph support and in-database machine learning. The supported platforms include Linux and Windows.
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Google Announces Several Updates to Database Services
Google has announced several new products and features for the database services on Google Cloud Platform. These announcements include Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, version 11 support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and multi-region replication for Cloud Bigtable.
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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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Studio 3T: SQL Exploration for MongoDB
Studio 3T offers an SQL-based user interface for MongoDB. This includes in-place data editing, query performance information, and a SQL to code converter for JavaScript (node.JS), Java, Python, and C#.
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Amazon Adds Cross Region and Encrypted Replication Support for Aurora
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced updates to its MySQL-compatible Database Engine, Aurora. In this update, Amazon is including support for cross region snapshot copy, cross region replication for encrypted databases, cross account encrypted snapshot sharing, adding a region where Aurora can be provisioned and a new instance size called T2.Small.
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Data Geekery Releases Version 3.9.0 of jOOQ, a Java ORM Tool for Building Type Safe Queries
Data Geekery released version 3.9.0 of jOOQ, their object-relational mapping (ORM) Java toolkit, featuring an experimental parser, additional type safety, better integration with Oracle, and improved transactions. InfoQ spoke to Lukas Eder, founder and CEO of Data Geekery GmbH, about this latest release.
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Speedment Releases Stream ORM Version 3.0.1
Speedment released version 3.0.1 of their stream object-relational mapping Java toolkit and runtime application, featuring a new declarative Java 8 stream API, an improved user interface, and better code generation. InfoQ spoke to Per-Åke Minborg, co-founder and CTO of Speedment, about this latest release.
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Plumbr Adds Slow Query Detection
JVM monitoring vendor Plumbr has added slow query detection to its flagship product. With this addition, Plumbr now detects four types of problems: Memory Leaks, Garbage Collection Inefficiencies, Locked Threads and Expensive JDBC Operations.
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FoundationDB SQL Layer: Storing SQL Data in a NoSQL Database
FoundationDB has announced the general availability of SQL Layer, and ANSI SQL engine that runs on top of their key-value store. The result is a relational database backed up by a scalable, fault-tolerant, shared-nothing, distributed NoSQL store with support for multi-key ACID transactions.
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JetBrains 0xDBE: A Tool for DBAs and SQL Developers
Up until now, JetBrains’ IDEs have included plug-ins for dealing with database administration and development tasks. JetBrains has decided to extract the respective functionality and place it in an IDE of its own, namely 0xDBE.
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Hadoop Summit 2014 Day Two - On the Path to Enterprise Grade Hadoop
Hadoop Summit Day Two report covers the important trends and changes from last year's summit. It also covers the important announcements of the day in relation to this year's trending topics. This report shares an analysis of the Hadoop market by leading analysts, competing benchmarks by vendors and platform specific innovations and announcements.
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DataBricks Announces Spark SQL for Manipulating Structured Data Using Spark
DataBricks, the company behind Apache Spark, has announced a new addition into the Spark ecosystem called Spark SQL. Spark SQL is separate from Shark, and does not use Hive under the hood. InfoQ reached out to Reynold Xin and Michael Armbrust, software engineers at DataBricks, to learn more about Spark SQL.