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Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns

How we store and serve data are critical factors in what we can do with data, and today we want to do oh-so much. That big data necessity is the mother of all invention, and over the past 20 years, it has spurred an imme Read more…

Cloud Databases Are Maturing Rapidly, Gartner Says

The mad dash to the cloud continues, but now we’re entering a maturation phase that’s bringing more advanced capabilities for both analytical and transactional workloads in the cloud, Gartner analysts wrote in their Read more…

SingleStore is the Newest Data Unicorn with $116M Funding Round

SingleStore, provider of a popular relational database, has announced a $116 million extended Series F round led by Goldman Sachs. The company reported a nearly $1.3 billion valuation, launching it into unicorn status. Read more…

MongoDB Targets Analytics with V6.0

MongoDB held its annual user conference this week, which means database customers have been inundated with new features and capabilities. Some of the most compelling enhancements unveiled at MongoDB World revolve around Read more…

Developers Display Grace Under Pressure During Pandemic

Digital architects are mostly holding their own under pandemic-induced pressure to get projects out the door faster despite persistent data infrastructure gaps, according to a vendor survey that also concludes COVID-19 d Read more…

Multi-Cloud Driving Database Monitoring Services

The steady shift of databases to multiple clouds has created a niche market for SQL database monitoring tools used to track the performance of those enterprise platforms increasingly running in hybrid configurations. Read more…

MongoDB Atlas Goes Multi-Cloud

Database vendors are offering flexible cloud migration options as more customers spread out applications and data they share across multiple public clouds. The latest is MongoDB, which followed up last year’s Google Read more…

Oracle Touts an Exadata Backlog

In reporting modest revenue growth during its fiscal 2021 first quarter, Oracle Corp. emphasized that continuing growth hinges on the steady shift of its flagship database software and hardware technologies to the cloud. Read more…

Cassandra Gets Monitoring, Performance Upgrades

The latest beta release of the Apache Cassandra is designed to hit the ground running as the NoSQL database moves steadily to the cloud to provide managed services in production deployments. Cassandra 4.0 released on Read more…

SQream Raises Funds to Expand its Analytics Push

SQream Technologies, the GPU database vendor, has attracted new investors while adding several financial backers to its board of directors. The Tel Aviv-based database vendor said Wednesday (June 24) it raised $39.4 m Read more…

Cassandra Now Officially In the Cloud with DataStax Astra

Databases are expected to run in the cloud by default now. We know this because Gartner told us last year. And with today’s launch of Astra, DataStax’s distribution of the Cassandra NoSQL database is now formally ava Read more…

Cloud GPUs Aimed at Data Scientists

Core Scientific, an AI and cloud infrastructure vendor, is teaming with GPU-accelerated analytics specialist SQream Technologies to deliver what the partners tout as a “GPU Cloud for Data Scientists.” The goal of Read more…

MongoDB Accelerates Cloud Shift

MongoDB rolled out new versions of services and features this week designed to help migrate databases to the cloud, including a new data lake and search features. MongoDB also is among seven new cloud data partners wo Read more…

Looker Announces VC Haul to Fund Platform Push

Looker announced a $100 million-plus funding round this week as it looks to transition from a business intelligence and data visualization provider to a full-fledged data platform vendor. Looker said Thursday (Dec. 6) Read more…

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