Tag: relational databases
O’Reilly Report Shows Relational DB Momentum, No AI Slowdown
O’Reilly has released its Technology Trends for 2022 report, highlighting trends in its data spanning technologies from cloud and AI to databases and the metaverse. Among its conclusions: a bright and continuing future 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…
Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB
Apache Kafka and its accompanying key-value store are being used to provide persistent storage for a growing list of relational databases. Most used a key-value store as a foundation. Among the latest to emerge is Kar Read more…
Eyeing Expansion, SAP Pushes HANA to the Cloud
SAP continues to push its flagship HANA in-memory database platform higher into the cloud with a range of new analytics, cloud storage, AI and robotic process automation features aimed down-market beyond big companies an Read more…
SQream Adds Power9 to GPU Data Warehouse
Data warehouse vendor SQream Technologies, which recently claimed a 15-fold performance increase with the latest release of its SQreamDB, has now added support for IBM’s Power9 architecture to its GPU-accelerated datab Read more…
Pandora’s Journey from Hadoop to MemSQL
Pandora Media, the music streaming service, transitioned two years ago from heavy reliance on Hadoop for distributed processing to MemSQL as its primary database. The switch was prompted by the company’s inability b Read more…
RDBMS Remains Popular As Data Sources Grow
As the number and variety of data sources continues to explode along with proliferation of third party APIs used to connect it, data repositories such as relational databases continue to thrive while emerging software se Read more…
MariaDB Emerging as Default MySQL Option
After more than two years of development, the latest version of the Debian Project, a "universal" open-source operating system, was released over the past weekend. Organizers of the project also said the MariaDB server w Read more…
VoltDB Combines Streaming, Global Data
Emphasizing its ability to ingest and analyze "data in the moment," in-memory relational database specialist VoltDB rolled out the latest version of its flagship platform that includes new features to support streaming d Read more…
The Real-Time Rise of Apache Kafka
Shiny new objects are easy to find in the big data space. So when the industry's attention shifted towards processing streams of data in real time--as opposed to batch-style processing that was popular with first-generat Read more…
EnterpriseDB Throws Down PostgreSQL Gauntlet
A new database development environment released earlier this month has been tweaked to leverage the NoSQL capabilities in PostgreSQL, the open source object-relational database tool, to build next-generation web applicat Read more…
New Ropes for Scaling the SQL Wall
In the war being raged against big data there might not be a clear victor in the SQL and NoSQL camps. In fact, some have made the argument that companies need both camps to scale into a new era and colonize the uncivilized masses of teeming, wild data—much of it galloping into real-time application engines. According to Splice Machine CEO, Monte Zweben there are... Read more…