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
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
TigerGraph announced the launch of TigerGraph Cloud, a native graph database as a service as well as $32 million in Series B funding. According to the company, the ability for organizations to design their own solutions for graph-based data analysis has been limited to data scientists, developers and architects, and the new solution aims to … continue reading
Amazon announced its new quantum ledger database, a fully managed service that provides a cryptographically verifiable ledger for applications that need a centralized, trusted authority to provide a verifiable record of transactions. Amazon QLDB uses an immutable transactional log, known as a journal, which tracks each and every application data change and maintains a complete … continue reading
Fauna announced the general availability of FaunaDB Managed Serverless. The new service is a managed cloud database offering that aims to make it easier to obtain a serverless experience in the cloud. “Developers wanting a powerful data management component for cutting-edge app development can use FaunaDB, while companies wanting to avoid hands-on cloud configuration and … continue reading
Microsoft announced the latest updates to Visual Studio Code. The updates include include a new modern icons, as well as the ability to edit string arrays in the Settings UI, reveal search results in File Explorer and show whitespace in selection. It also includes terminal search UX improvements, better SCSS @import navigation, remote development tutorials … continue reading
Google announced new database options to power enterprise workloads on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The enhancements include: Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server in alpha, which enables users to bring existing SQL Server workloads to GCP. Federated queries from BigQuery to Cloud SQL Elastic Cloud on GCP is now available in Japan and coming … continue reading
This week’s SD Times Open Source Project of the Week is the newly open-sourced YugaByte DB, which allows users to better collaborate on the distributed SQL database. The move to the open-source core project distributed under the Apache 2.0 license makes previously closed-sourced features such as distributed backups, data encryption and read replicas more accessible, … continue reading
Oracle announced the expansion of its autonomous database dedicated service, which allows customers to transform from manually-managed independent databases on premises to a fully-autonomous private database cloud within Oracle’s public cloud. In a post, the company explained this will eliminate customer concerns about security isolation and operational policies when switching to the cloud. The automated … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has announced that the open-source mapping platform Mapzen is being accepted as one of its own projects. According to the Linux Foundation, Mapzen provides customizable and easily accessible wide-ranging data sets. “Mapzen is a high-utility technology for developers building aesthetically pleasing maps, which are increasingly important to a wide range of businesses … continue reading
Progress has announced the release of Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Connector. The new solution enables teams to build connectors for applications quickly without needing to write custom code. According to Progress, the Data Direct Autonomous REST Connector allows developers to fully access data from SQL-based applications. The key benefits that the solution offers are broad … continue reading
As applications become increasingly data-intensive, developers need faster, easier, more timely access to accurate customer data. Toward that end, leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutionsMelissa recently introduced open-source low-code and commercial tools. It also created a new division that uses semantic technology and machine reasoning to identify relationships in data … continue reading
