Topic: database
SD Times news digest: MongoDB for VS Code, Rust celebrates 5 years, and DigitalOcean’s $50 million round of funding
MongoDB wants to help make developers more productive with the release of MongoDB for VS Code. The solution enables developers to quickly connect to MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas and work with their data to build applications right inside their code editor. Users can connect to a MongoDB or Atlas cluster, create MongoDB Playgrounds, and quickly … continue reading
SD Times news digest: CockroachDB 20.1, ActiveState early access program, and ScyllaDB 4.0
Cockroach Lans announced the release of CockroachDB 20.1 with new features for simpler and faster cloud application development. The updated version includes online primary key changes, monitoring updates, and enhanced support for popular development tools and languages (ORMs). It also includes additional improvements to multi-region performance and security. “CockroachDB 20.1 gives developers a database that … continue reading
SD Times news digest: OpenTelemetry announces beta support for languages, MariaDB’s SkySQL, and dotData Enterprise
OpenTelemetry announced the first wave of beta releases for Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, and .NET Components. “We’ve made significant progress on OpenTelemetry in the last few weeks as we’ve successfully added more languages for inclusion in the beta launch. We’ll continue to add more language-specific components to the project as we move forward, bringing us … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Automation Anywhere Discovery Bot, Obviously AI’s ML platform, and CircleCI’s new learning platform
Automation Anywhere announced an new integrated AI-driven process discovery solution that discovers business processes and creates bots to automate them. The Discovery Bot uses AI and machine learning to prioritize automation opportunities by potential return on investment (ROI) and develop RPA bots – accelerating the process automation journey for organizations, the company explained. In addition, … continue reading
Neo4j Graph Database 4.0 released with a reactive architecture
Neo4j Graph Database 4.0 has been released with a new reactive architecture to provide a “very responsive, elastic and robust” database, the company explained. In addition, the latest release features new multi-database capabilities, Neo4j Fabric, and a schema-based security model. According to Neo4j, the 4.0 release of the graph database addresses the broad and complex … continue reading
Switching to NoSQL is easier than you might think
While many companies still utilize relational databases, the benefits of NoSQL databases are clear, whether that’s the ability to handle large volumes of structured or unstructured data, perform Agile sprints or its flexibility and scalability. And moving to a NoSQL database is easier than most think. Brian Hess, the strategic solution engineer at DataStax, explained … continue reading
A guide to legacy app modernization tool providers
Compuware: Compuware, a mainframe-dedicated software company, empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by taking full advantage of their mainframe investments. They do this by delivering innovative software that enables IT professionals with mainstream skills to develop, deliver and support mainframe applications with ease and agility. Splice Machine: Splice Machine is … continue reading
How these companies can help you modernize your applications
David Rizzo, VP of product engineering at Compuware Compuware delivers highly innovative solutions and integrations that enable IT professionals of all skill levels to manage mainframe applications, data and platform operations with ease and agility. As mainframe workloads continue to grow and platform stewardship shifts to cross-platform DevOps teams, providing common tools that automate, integrate … continue reading
Legacy app modernization is not a slash and burn process
Legacy application modernization may mean different things to different people. But whether that means updating practices surrounding mainframes, adopting Agile and DevOps practices or updating to modern databases, legacy app modernization is necessary to keep pace with modern industry demands. “Legacy modernization at large means that you take advantage of enhanced operational agility and accelerated … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Tableau’s new cloud analytics program, CockroachDB 19.2, and ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 early access program
Tableau launched a new modern cloud analytics (MCA) program to accelerate customers’ cloud analytics journeys. According to the company, MCA leverages analytics and cloud expertise and taps the resources and technical knowledge of their partner networks to provide a blueprint for migrating analytics to the cloud. MCA builds upon existing integrations between Tableau and AWS … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Neo4j Aura released, Applause announces new AI training and testing solution, and AutoML translate now GA
Neo4j announced Neo4j AuraTM, a fully-managed database as a service. Neo4j Aura enables developers, architects and data scientists to deploy, scale and power connected data applications in the cloud. According to the company, it requires no administration, and features simple pricing, always-on availability, on-demand scaling, guaranteed data durability, built in authentication and end-to-end data encryption. … continue reading
PostgreSQL 12 is now available
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has just released the latest version of the open-source database PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 12 includes improvements to query performance and space utilization. Performance improvements include optimizations to b-tree indexes, queries on partitioned tables, and several improvements to indexing in general. With this release, just-in-time (JIT) compilation, which was introduced in PostgreSQL … continue reading
