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• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Amazon cloud database and data analytics expand

  AWS expands its Redshift data warehouse capabilities including managed storage and query acceleration at the re:Invent 2019 conference, alongside a new managed Cassandra database service.

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Vendors move away from open source database software licensing

  While open source is a key to success for many database vendors, it can also potentially lead to a competitive threat from a cloud scale provider.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Oracle looks to grow multi-model database features

  Decade after decade, Oracle continues to be relevant in the database market as it pivots to include an expanding list of capabilities to serve users, notably cloud.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database

  Getting streaming data optimized to work inside of a database often involves disparate vendors and technologies, a challenge that Confluent aims to help fix.

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  CockroachDB 19.2 improves distributed database performance

  New release of CockroachDB cloud-native distributed database platform helps to reduce latency; it also gets enhanced data backup capabilities.

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• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Redis Labs eases database management with RedisInsight

  Based on the open source RDBTools project, Redis Labs' new tool gives database administrators a stable graphical user interface for database management.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  With Vitess 4.0, database vendor matures cloud-native platform

  Scaling a MySQL database in the cloud is not easy, but the open source Vitess project manages the project at scale for cloud-native Kubernetes deployments.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  ScyllaDB set to improve NoSQL database performance

  ScyllaDB has been helpful for big organizations such as Comcast, which was able to trim from nearly 1,000 database nodes to 78 ScyllaDB nodes and now has more room to grow.

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Translytical data platforms provide options to unify databases

  Forrester identifies top vendors in the translytical database category and common elements that help make the unified database model well adapted for multiple use cases.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Okera shines Spotlight on data lake insights

  Possessing data stored in a data lake can be an important asset, but understanding how the data is being used, or in some cases not used, is another challenge altogether.

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Data silos and culture lead to data transformation challenges

  Data continues to grow at a rapid rate, and users are faced with increasing complexity and challenges to make sense of it all in a way that helps improve business outcomes.

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Grafana Labs observability platform set to grow

  Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, provides insight into what his company is doing and where it's headed, now that it has raised new money and is seeing new use cases for its data observability technology.

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Splunk advances Data-to-Everything initiative

  Splunk execs outline the vendor's direction and new capabilities at its annual user conference, including the general availability of Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor.

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Open source database use is a growing trend

  Study shows that more users are using open source software for data management, with most organizations using more than one technology to help meet different needs.

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Databricks contributes Delta Lake to the Linux Foundation

  Databricks has found a new home at the Linux Foundation for its open source Delta Lake data lake project, in a bid to help grow a broader community and accelerate adoption.