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Database management system DBMS software and technology

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service stokes competition

  Vendors in the open source Cassandra NoSQL database market voice their concerns about AWS' entry into the field, as the cloud giant looks to expand its database portfolio.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Aerospike 4.8 advances database persistent memory support

  Aerospike 4.8 adds full support for Intel's Optane persistent memory, enabling the NoSQL database to run both the index and data in memory for better overall performance.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Apache Rya matures open source triple store database

  Open source triple store database technology used by the U.S. Navy moves forward as a stable, mature project at the Apache Software Foundation.