The state of open source databases in 2019: Multiple Databases, Clouds, and Licenses
An extensive survey shows the attitude of the market towards open source databases, drivers and inhibitors to adoption
Read More →Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value. Today, you can extend PostgreSQL with the right software and bio-chemical modules, and run SQL on DNA.
Read More →Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence in the cloud and on premise, and it just got SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
Read More →For CockroachDB, transactions first, then analytics is a feature — not a bug
An open-source database that is resilient, supports automatic geo-scaling on-premise and in the cloud, and SQL. CockroachDB already is all that. Next in the roadmap: Analytics, with Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing.
Read More →ScyllaDB achieves Cassandra feature parity, adds HTAP, cloud, and Kubernetes support
ScyllaDB, the open-source drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra, is growing up. Version 3.0 closes the gap in terms of features, and has a few extras to add on top of superior performance over Cassandra.
Read More →MemSQL 6.7 brings free tier and performance enhancement: Transactions for nothing, and faster queries for free
MemSQL is not the first database to offer a free tier. But this one comes with full functionality to support real-world use cases, while also improving performance for typical data warehousing queries by a factor of 100.
Read More →Processing time series data: What are the options?
Get your data from everywhere you can, anytime you can, they said, so you did. Now, you have a series of data points through time (a time series) in your hands, and you don't know what to do with it? Worry not, because there's a bunch of options.
Read More →Zen and the art of data structures: From self-tuning to self-designing data systems
Designing data systems is something few people understand, and it's very hard and costly. But that, too, could be automated, says new research from Harvard, and we're about to start seeing it in real life.
Read More →MemSQL 6.5: NewSQL with autonomous workload optimization, improved data ingestion and query execution speed
MemSQL wants to be the world's best database. Leading that race is a tall order, but the new version seems to improve on an already strong offering.
Read More →GraphQL for databases: A layer for universal database access?
GraphQL is a query language mostly used to streamline access to REST APIs. Now, a new breed of GraphQL implementations wants to build an abstraction layer for any database on top of GraphQL, and it seems to be catching up.
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