Topic: postgresql
Google Cloud announces general availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Google announced the general availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that enables organizations to modernize database workloads. The preview was announced earlier this year at Google Cloud I/O. According to the company, when compared with standard PostgreSQL, AlloyDB was faster for both transactional workloads and analytical queries. In addition, it was also … continue reading
PostgreSQL 15 is now available
The team behind the open-source database PostgreSQL today announced the release of PostgreSQL 15. According to the project maintainers, this release builds on the performance improvements of recent releases with gains for managing workloads in both local and distributed deployments, including improved sorting. PostgreSQL 15 is intended to improve the overall developer experience with the … continue reading
Quest Software Announces Public Beta for SharePlex for PostgreSQL
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – Sept. 22, 2022 – Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced the public beta of SharePlex for PostgreSQL. SharePlex is the industry-leading database management and replication solution designed to help customers ensure high availability and facilitate the movement of data between platforms. Businesses are … continue reading
First beta for PostgreSQL 15 now available
The team at PostgreSQL, a data warehouse for web, mobile, geospatial, and analytics applications, today announced that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 15 is now available for download. The beta version brings users previews of all of the features that are set to become available when PostgreSQL 15 is made generally available. Information about … continue reading
Google’s new AlloyDB for PostgreSQL helps companies transition from legacy databases
At its Google I/O conference, Google announced a new database service that it hopes will free customers of their legacy database systems. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully-managed database service compatible with PostgreSQL. “Databases are increasingly shifting into the cloud and we expect this trend to continue as more companies digitally transform their businesses. With … continue reading
SD Times news digest: PostgreSQL 14, Perforce acquires BlazeMeter from Broadcom, and BMC acquires StreamWeave
PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced the release of PostgreSQL 14, bringing a variety of new features, such as connection concurrency, high-write workloads, query parallelism, and logical replication. In addition, PostgreSQL 14 also includes enhancements to JSON conveniences and multiranges, performance improvements for heavy workloads, enhancements for distributed workloads, administration observability, SQL performance, conformance, and convenience, … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Parasoft adds pen testing to its testing platform, LEADTOOLS V22, and Progress to acquire application experience company Kemp
Parasoft has expanded its API and SAST testing with enhanced OWASP support. The upgrade features penetration testing, which shifts security testing into developer workflows. This shift will address API security issues by identifying vulnerabilities in APIs. The platform integrates Parasoft SOAtest and Smart API Test Generator with OWASP ZAP to build security into development workflows. … continue reading
Guest View: OLAP + OLTP = …PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL is a popular open-source OLTP database for systems of record. It’s the fourth most-widely used database in the world, and its popularity has grown more than any other database for three of the last four years in a row, according to the recent DB-Engines database rankings. Despite the widespread use of PostgreSQL by application … 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
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Azure Data Studio
Microsoft is making it possible for data scientists to interact with PostgreSQL in a visual way with the release of Azure Data Studio, which is a graphical user interface (GUI) editor for PostgreSQL. According to Microsoft, Azure Data Studio inherited a lot of its functionality from VS Code. As such, it supports most of VS … continue reading
Pivotal launches transaction and streaming processing for Greenplum 6, Pivotal Postgres
Pivotal is expanding the scope of its cloud-native enterprise platform with the release of Greenplum 6 and Pivotal Postgres. Announced today during the company’s Greenplum Summit in San Francisco, Pivotal says the new releases are part of a broader commitment to PostgreSQL. Greenplum 6 is more scalable and has greater concurrency over the previous iteration, … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Microsoft acquires Citus Data, JFrog partners with Risk Based Security, and SmartBear TestComplete 14.0
Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Citus Data. Microsoft launched a community-based database service for PostgreSQL in March of last year, and Citus is an open source extension to PostgreSQL. According to Microsoft, this acquisition builds on Azure’s commitment to open source and will allow it to provide scalability and improved performance. “Together, Microsoft … continue reading
