Tag: Database

June 8, 2022

When I rejoined MongoDB in 2021, I got to hear all the old jokes rehashed. You know, about MongoDB being “web scale,” about losing data, about only being eventually consistent, and so on. The web scale video is funny; the […]

May 13, 2022

Building on top of its recently launched serverless application platform Workers and the R2 object storage service, Cloudflare is releasing a new serverless database, dubbed D1, to take on databases from AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP and Oracle. The company claims […]

December 13, 2021

There are a lot of reasons to take SQL Server monitoring seriously, and it should be a priority for any database administrator. Two of the top contenders in this context are the opportunity to optimize availability and also to get […]

October 12, 2021

The fundamental principle of cloud systems is a focus on multiple, disposable, and replaceable machines. This has direct consequences for the implementation techniques, and therefore the capabilities of database systems implemented in the cloud. Traditional databases can be roughly classified […]

August 24, 2021

Databases are typically classified as relational (SQL) or NoSQL, and transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP), or hybrid (HTAP). Departmental and special-purpose databases were initially considered huge improvements to business practices, but later derided as “islands.” Attempts to create unified databases for […]

September 11, 2020

The notion of edge computing typically conjures an image of a device in a factory someplace, providing rudimentary computing and data collection to support a piece of manufacturing equipment. Perhaps it keeps the factory temperature and humidity optimized for the […]

September 10, 2020

In a recent blog post, Oracle introduced the MySQL Database Service in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service is now available as a fully-managed service running on Oracle Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure. The MySQL team at Oracle was responsible […]

June 17, 2019

In all the excitement about NoSQL databases, distributed databases, data warehouses, and GPU-accelerated databases these days, it’s easy to forget that traditional relational databases still store and serve the mission-critical information for many, if not most, line-of-business applications. Oracle Database, […]

September 27, 2018

Google announced it is bringing code search with the newly revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta availability. The overhaul of the service means an entirely new user interface and semantic code search capabilities. The beta available Cloud Source Repositories is […]

August 2, 2018

A data quality expert once told me that vendors providing data quality software solutions should always ensure 100 percent quality data, and if they didn’t, they should be liable for any ensuing issues. I disagreed with that harsh assessment then—and […]

July 20, 2018

In 2012 former Chief Data Scientist of the United States DJ Patil and Babson College Professor Thomson H. Davenport famously declared that the job of Data Scientist would be the “Sexiest job of the 21st Century.” While that may true, […]

July 16, 2018

A recent press release states, “Datadog, the leading monitoring and analytics platform for modern cloud environments, today announced the availability of Trace Search and Analytics. This new capability allows engineers to explore, graph, and correlate high cardinality application performance data. […]

July 16, 2018

A recent press release reports, “Intertrust Technologies Corporation, a world leader in trusted distributed computing technologies, today announced the launch of Intertrust Modulus platform, a security and rights management platform for cloud-based data sets that allows companies to build data-driven […]

July 6, 2018

Dome9 Security, the public cloud security company, is introducing new capabilities in the Dome9 Compliance Engine that extend the scope of the platform’s automation beyond security and compliance monitoring. Using this new Compliance Engine functionality, enterprises can accelerate the resolution […]

July 5, 2018

At Oracle OpenWorld 2017 and in subsequent company announcements, Oracle has made it clear that it currently has two key focus areas: the Autonomous Cloud Database, starting with the Autonomous Cloud Data Warehouse, and security. There’s a lot of publicity […]

June 25, 2018

A new press release states Preempt, a company revolutionizing the prevention of cyber security breaches and internal threats, in partnership with Demisto, an innovator in Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) technology, have announced a fully adaptive approach to cyber […]

June 21, 2018

Every single discussion of blockchain seems to start with some variant of the phrase “secure, distributed hyperledger.” I take no issue with the fact that it’s a hyperledger—in other words, a continuously growing list of linked records. And I have […]

June 15, 2018

The cloud was supposed to kill open source. Instead, savvy cloud operators appear to be using open source as an on-ramp to proprietary services, giving them reason to increase investments in complementary open source projects. Google is the obvious example, […]

June 8, 2018

If you’ve worked in devops for more than a couple years, you’re probably all too familiar with the agony of monolithic apps and the hellscape of spaghetti code. You know what it’s like. Your business logic is embedded in stored […]

June 6, 2018

ALTR is emerging from nearly four years of stealth to release a platform that unleashes the security benefits of blockchain. The new ALTR platform is built on ALTRchain, the only high-performance, enterprise-grade blockchain technology for ultra-secure data access and storage. […]