Couchbase improves Kubernetes operator to deliver cloud native
Thursday, April 30, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Couchbase announced Version 2.0 of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (“Autonomous Operator”), the most mature and advanced operator in the industry. As enterprises continue to move to the cloud, DevOps, and microservices architectures, Autonomous Operator Version 2.0 helps to:
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MongoDB World 2018 and everything you need to know
Monday, July 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
At MongoDB World 2018, MongoDB made several major product announcements that the company says is "expanding on their presence in the database market." Nearly every company is focused on using software for a competitive advantage. The company says that with their latest enhancements database platform, "it enables a competitive advantage for thousands of cu...
ScaleArc now supports Microsoft Azure SQL database
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Austin Harris
ScaleArc has announced that it has integrated its ScaleArc for SQL Server software with Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Customers of Microsoft Azure Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) software can now benefit from the seamless scale out, faster application performance, and high availability features of the ScaleArc software. With this enhancement, customers can now take advant...
Is your app ready for Black Friday
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Tony Branson
With the increasing use of mobile devices for online shopping, a major share of every wallet is now going to online retailers. The convenience of shopping anytime; anywhere perfectly suits the busy, on-the-go generation that is giving eCommerce businesses a big boost. Despite this reality, more than 70% of SMBs do not have their websites ready for a sudden rise in traff...
MultiTenant vs. Single Tenant: Choosing the right DBaaS Data Store from the start
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Michael Russo
The Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) model is an attractive option for rapid deployment of managed database assets in the cloud. If you’re thinking of using a DBaaS to power your cloud-based application’s database, you’ll want to understand the pros and cons of multi-tenant versus single-tenant datastores for housing your data. Both approaches have merit and by understandi...
Realtime streaming and better security for DevOps with new MaxScale 2.0
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
MariaDB Corporation has announced the general availability of MaxScale 2.0, which adds new data streaming integration with Kafka. MaxScale is a next-generation database proxy that manages administrative functions like security, scalability, data streaming and high availability, enabling the database to focus on core functionality.At its core, MaxScale has a multi-thread...
Control Downtime with Application Dependency Maps
Thursday, September 22, 2016 by Sridhar Iyengar
Application downtime is an enterprise’s worst nightmare. On top of that, it’s fairly common. According to a survey conducted by Dun & Bradstreet, 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies experience a minimum of 1.6 hours of downtime per week. Each time a business application fails, the IT admins have a herculean task ahead of them. They must figure out the root caus...
VoltDB's SQL Solution Combines Streaming Analytics with Transaction Processing
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
VoltDB offers an in-memory SQL database solution that combines streaming analytics with transaction processing in a single, horizontal scale-out platform. Companies use VoltDB to build applications that process streaming data the instant it arrives to make immediate, per-event, context-aware decisions providing the ability to receive real-time in-transaction analytics.V...
IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
Saturday, March 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced an agreement to acquire Cloudant a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider. Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM, offers elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization through its JSON cloud-based data service which allows mobile and web developers to stor...
