databases
Without governance, data-sharing benefits may not outlast the pandemic, warns CDEI chair
Data has played a pivotal role in society's response to Covid-19. For many, the experience has shown just how much…
Redis Labs Turns Unicorn: CEO Ofer Bengal Talks Databases, Intel Optane, and Child’s Toys
Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal once had a sideline in designing children's toys, but he's not playing around at the…
Apache Cassandra 4.0 Lands: Five Times Faster, Audit Logging and More
Apache Cassandra, the distributed NoSQL database, ranks highly in the "most dreaded" database category of Stack Overflow's annual developer survey.…
DBA Appreciation Day — Business Leaders: Are You Jettisoning Expertise That You Need?
It's Database Administrator (DBA) appreciation day. We hadn't forgotten. Hopefully neither have you. It's a job that helps keep mission…
MongoDB Gets a New Distribution, as Percona Grasps the Nettle
Open source database specialist Percona today announced its very own MongoDB distribution (and managed services for it); an unusual move…
Autonomous Databases – Are You Handing Over Control for the Right Reasons?
Whenever you have an application, you have data. Aside from the result of your carefully crafted application, the application will…
Amazon Kisses Goodbye to Last of 7,500 Oracle Databases
Amazon’s consumer business says it has turned off its final Oracle database, after migrating a massive 75 petabytes of internal…
Database Diversity: The Dirt, the Data
Companies are using an increasingly eclectic mix of databases, a survey of 836 enterprise database users from around the world…
MongoDB’s CEO on Open Source, Taking on Oracle, and Scaling Up
"A database is the heart of any application, because data is the heart of any application. Think about Amazon: it's a…
EU Agrees to Link Fragmented Border Security Databases
European policy makers have agreed to connect a sweeping array of currently siloed border security systems, creating a common identity…