Universal semantic layer: Going meta on data, functionality, governance, and semantics
What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Is there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for? By George Anadiotis When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn’t have answers to those questions. All he wanted to […]
Read More →Aerospike Graph: A new entry in the graph database market, aiming to tackle complex problems at scale
“Graph database growth is going strong through the Trough of Disillusionment.” And “Graph Analytics go big and real-time.” These were two of the headlines of the Spring 2023 update of the Year of the Graph newsletter. In combination, they seem like an appropriate summary of the reasoning behind a new entry in the graph database […]
Read More →Data is going to the cloud in real-time, and so is ScyllaDB 5.0
ScyllaDB started with the aim of becoming a drop-in replacement for Cassandra. It's growing to become more than that.
Read More →Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that wants to take the embedded key-value store world by storm
RocksDB is the secret sauce underlying many data management systems. Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that offers a significant boost in performance and now powers Redis on Flash.
Read More →Another cloud native SQL database unicorn: Yugabyte raises $188M Series C funding at $1.3B valuation
A number of successive funding rounds have given Yugabyte unicorn status while positioning the company to aim for a big piece of a growing pie in the shape-shifting database market.
Read More →OtterTune sets out to auto tune all the databases
Tuning databases is key to application performance and stability, but it's a hard job. Auto-tuning helps, but it was reserved for the Oracles and Microsofts of the world till now. OtterTune wants to democratize this capability
Read More →Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL
Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that.
Read More →Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future
GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how.
Read More →Pinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding
Machine learning applications understand the world through vectors. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors, has secured significant investment from the people who brought Snowflake to the world. Could this be the next big thing?
Read More →Meet Stargate, DataStax’s GraphQL for databases. First stop – Cassandra
A flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Cassandra was lacking in that department, and DataStax is trying to address this with the release of a new API layer called Stargate.
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