Open source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction
Appwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to capitalize on its grass-roots popularity
Read More →The biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j
A $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion. A social network of 3 billion people, distributed across 1000 servers. The latter is a demo; the former is not. But both are real signs that the graph market and Neo4j are getting huge.
Read More →2021 technology trend review, part one: Blockchain, cloud, open source
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Blockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade.
Read More →Lightning-fast Python for 100x faster performance from Saturn Cloud, now available on Snowflake
Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs. Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses
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.
Read More →Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding
Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. Being a pure-play open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL, while offering Apache Cassandra and GraphQL interfaces, is what you need, says Yugabyte.
Read More →A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding
Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a global database makes more sense, and Cockroach DB is making a play for a bigger piece of a growing pie
Read More →Make Apache Cassandra great again: DataStax going cloud, Kubernetes, open source, and multi-model
Actions and words, code and advocacy. DataStax is changing strategy, re-engaging with the Apache Cassandra open source community, and releasing some interesting technical advancements while at it, too.
Read More →Semantics and virtualization, data integration and data governance on the way to the cloud
It's official – data analytics is swiftly moving to the cloud. AtScale is facilitating this, and CEO Chris Lynch shares his insights the hows and whys, in light of the unveiling of AtScale's Adaptive Analytics 2020.1
Read More →DevOps and observability in the 2020s
What do the data tell us on the direction modern software development is going? Cloud, open source, machine learning — it's all here, but blind spots remain.
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