TileDB secures $34M to reimagine databases, not just collect GitHub stars System aims to clean mess of high-performance analytics cluttering the modern data stack Databases17 Oct 2023 | 3
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall Strategic DBaaS and distributed back end jettisoned after years of promotion Databases13 Oct 2023 | 12
Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode Databases10 Oct 2023 |
In rare bout of generosity, Oracle extends free support for Database 19c Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now Databases06 Oct 2023 | 5
DuckDB shuns VC breadcrumbs so support isn't all it's quacked up to be Company behind popular in-process OLAP system feels weight of success Databases05 Oct 2023 | 1
NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5
MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code Databases27 Sep 2023 | 7
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation Databases21 Sep 2023 |
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout Database company, which went through an IPO in December last year, was still in search of credit facility as of August Databases19 Sep 2023 | 4
Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M Databases19 Sep 2023 |
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure At least it was the weekend PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project Databases18 Sep 2023 | 3
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 2
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place Exclusive Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs Databases06 Sep 2023 | 38
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
MariaDB's revenue grows as new CEO settles in, but bank loan discussions continue New exec works on 'strategic, operational and financial reviews' as existing loan maturity nears Databases25 Aug 2023 | 1
Fauna Query Language tamed to appeal to developers Latest revision takes inspiration from TypeScript, Python, and GraphQL Databases22 Aug 2023 | 6
You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses Security15 Aug 2023 | 59
AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans Databases01 Aug 2023 |
Ambulance patient records system hauled offline for cyber-attack probe UK trusts serving 12 million people affected as vendor awaits results of forensic investigation Cyber-crime26 Jul 2023 | 13
Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9
InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test' Despite attempts to inform customers, some say they never got the memo Databases11 Jul 2023 | 25
Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way MongoDB joins joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore in implementing AI-friendly features AI + ML11 Jul 2023 | 1
MariaDB sent dollar dip warning from NYSE No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back Databases05 Jul 2023 | 7
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5
Rejecting Intel, Oracle pumps up Exadata beef cake with AMD protein Muscular system gets first update in two years with Epyc injection Systems23 Jun 2023 | 1
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends Databases16 May 2023 | 44
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert Databases11 May 2023 | 4
EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst Databases02 May 2023 | 8
Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides Databases28 Apr 2023 |
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable CxO21 Apr 2023 | 12
MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company Databases18 Apr 2023 | 6
FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation Databases14 Apr 2023 | 7
Couchbase's chief techie on squaring the schema-less circle Interview Ravi Mayuram on work to make life easier for devs while sprinkling a bit of SQL on top Spotlight on Databases31 Mar 2023 | 2
Cloud Security Alliance VP: Database security boils down to these three things Interview Here's how not to end up in their next report as a cautionary tale Spotlight on Databases30 Mar 2023 | 1
Exasol: Taking a bet on the affordability of in-memory analytics Interview German startup reconned on hardware economics favouring a specialist database Spotlight on Databases29 Mar 2023 | 6
AWS security exec: You don't want to win this database popularity contest Interview Data guarding requires better 'education, better technology, and better automation' Spotlight on Databases28 Mar 2023 | 7
When it comes to database security it's down to people, not tech fixes, to save the day Interview Get your staff and processes lined up and ready to go Spotlight on Databases27 Mar 2023 | 5
Watch for schema design in graph database rollout, business user warns Hardware configuration also important to get query times down, says global research publisher Spotlight on Databases27 Mar 2023 | 3
Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life Spotlight on Databases22 Mar 2023 |
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 |
Pair accused of breaking into US law enforcement database, posing as cops Teen arrested yesterday while another man suspected of being a ViLE crime group member still 'at large' Spotlight on Databases15 Mar 2023 | 4
The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph Register Debate Industry upstart preferred... for now Spotlight on Databases10 Mar 2023 | 28
Tabular launches with the promise of a 'headless' data warehouse Developers of Apache Iceberg announce sign-up for their first product Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |
Great Graph Database Debate: Abandoning the relational model is 'reinventing the wheel' Register Debate Let's talk about what well-architected looks like Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 | 47
AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant Spotlight on Databases14 Feb 2023 |
How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on Devops12 Feb 2023 | 4
Best time to prepare to leave an Oracle ULA? The day after it starts, say licensing gurus Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down' Databases01 Feb 2023 | 10
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5 Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Microsoft fixes Windows database connections it broke in November January Patch Tuesday update resolves issue caused by Patch Tuesday update late in '22 Patches11 Jan 2023 | 3
Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics Feature Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important Databases03 Jan 2023 | 6
Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade Databases09 Dec 2022 | 2
Microsoft: Whoops, Patch Tuesday might screw your database connections SQL sequel needed for ODBC apps Software08 Dec 2022 | 71
SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts Udpated Azure SQL pay-as-you-go rate is the only rate that won't change, and it was already expensive Databases23 Nov 2022 | 26
MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers Interview Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB Databases17 Nov 2022 | 6
Databases still pushing more hardware purchasing than any other app $40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone Systems08 Nov 2022 |
Redis swallows RESP.app biz that made its database easier on developers Acquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache Databases03 Nov 2022 |
Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway Databases01 Nov 2022 |