2022 Web3 predictions from Vendia
Thursday, January 6, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Shruthi Rao is co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Vendia, a serverless, distributed data application platform. Previously, she founded the Blockchain category at AWS, where she launched and grew Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, and was the lead Business Development for AWS’ Serverless portfolio of services including Lambda, API G...
Couchbase accelerates enterprise applications for customers
Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Couchbase, Inc., provider of a modern database for enterprise applications, announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 7. This landmark release bridges the best aspects of relational databases like ACID transactions with the flexibility of a modern database, allowing enterprises to confidently accelerate strategic initiatives such as more quickly moving busi...
Persistent memory makes its way into business applications
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 by Richard Harris
In 2021, more businesses will focus on rapidly accelerating and scaling out applications to meet the challenges of digital transformation.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove many businesses, especially those in food delivery, eCommerce, logistics, and remote access and collaboration services, to dramatically scale-out and upgrade infrastructure to maintain high app...
NoSQL DBaaS, Couchbase Cloud arrives
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 by Richard Harris
Couchbase introduced Couchbase Cloud, a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). Couchbase Cloud enables enterprises to host their data within their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for greater control and ownership, and pay for only what they use. Customers can now experience best-in-class performance and availability from the most powerful NoSQL database technology...
Embracing operational analytics for better development
Friday, November 8, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Operational analytics defines how we use business analytics to improve business operations. Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB as their database for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT and other applications that need low-late...
A serverless search engine for Data Scientists and Developers emerges
Friday, March 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Rockset announced the general availability of a cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks.
Current trends in technology - smart devices, digital lending, fraud detection, omnichannel retail, machine learning, microservices, and real-time business dashboards - all require clean...
ArangoDB NoSQL database platform updates to 3.4
Thursday, December 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
ArangoDB announced the GA release of ArangoDB 3.4 - a transactional database solution which enables developers to efficiently interact with multiple data models by using just one technology and one query language. Major new enhancements in ArangoDB 3.4 include ArangoSearch, a feature which transforms ArangoDB, when combined with traversals or joins in AQL, from a data r...
Postgres support has been unvieled for Toad Edge
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Austin Harris
Quest Software unveiled the commercial release of Toad Edge 2.0, which adds support for Postgres. Toad Edge enables developers and database administrators to reduce the time and effort required to develop, manage and maintain Postgres-based open source databases while helping produce optimal performance.
A recent report estimates that more than 70% of new in-house ap...
Move data between the cloud and edge with Couchbase Mobile 2.0
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
Couchbase, Inc. has announced the latest advancement in mobile data management with Couchbase Mobile 2.0. The latest release offers enterprise developers SQL queries, Full-Text Search, synchronization, and end-to-end security among other features to easily mobilize business applications to create better customer experiences and a more effective workforce. Companies acro...
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud launched for GA
Sunday, April 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced the availability of a new service based on its Autonomous Database named Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at "half the cost of Amazon Web Services."Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of t...
NoSQL database benchmark released by ArangoDB
Thursday, February 22, 2018 by Austin Harris
ArangoDB announced the latest findings of its open source NoSQL performance benchmark series. To enable vendors to respond to the results and contribute improvements, the company has published the necessary scripts required to repeat the benchmark. The goal of the benchmark is to measure the performance of each database system when there is no cache used. The benchmark ...
Bitcoin job skills are hot says latest report
Monday, February 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Upwork has released its newest quarterly index of the hottest skills in the U.S. freelance job market. The Upwork Skills Index ranks the site’s 20 fastest-growing skills in a quarterly series that sheds light on new and emerging skills as an indication of hot freelance job market trends. According to a recent study, 57.3 million Americans (36 percent of the U.S. workfor...
MongoDB 3.6 set to release in December 2017
Thursday, November 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
MongoDB Inc. announced the release of MongoDB 3.6, the latest release of their NoSQL database solution. According to the company, v3.6 of the solution will be made available in early December of 2017.“MongoDB was created by developers, for developers to provide a modern database designed for today’s highly sophisticated applications. This latest release delivers key in...
Explaining graph databases to a developer
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Organizations are increasingly beginning to grasp onto the power of graph databases, which helps them unlock business value within connections, influences and relationship within their data. Graph databases enable new applications to adapt to changing business needs and existing applications to scale with the business.To learn more about how organizations can implement ...
Solving the challenges of database DevOps
Monday, October 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
As companies look to the promises of DevOps to improve their applications' quality and delivery, obstacles still exist with relational databases that hinder adoption of this collaborative process. In this interview, Perry Krug, Principal Architect of Strategic Accounts at Couchbase, shares insight into why relational database management systems impede database DevOps, a...
Rethinking DevOps as DevSecOps
Thursday, October 12, 2017 by Akshay Aggarwal
If you’re not already thinking right now that your DevOps teams should be run like a DevSecOps team, you may already be in a world of hurt. Time to wake up! As the adoption of APIs continues to grow, so do the risks to organizations that don’t actively test the security of their solutions. Modern Agile development frameworks have changed the way engineering teams produc...
Everything you need to know about MySQL 8.0
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 by Austin Harris
The MySQL version 8.0 release candidate was announced in a recent blog post by MySQL highlighting all of the new features that are going to hit the books. First off, you may be asking yourself, “MySQL 8.0? Whatever happened to 6 and 7?” MySQL reports in the post that in order to avoid some confusion with previous alpha releases and MySQL Cluster, the company decided to ...
NoSQL databases can now use Hackolade's CLI
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
With GDPR quickly approaching, Hackolade has announced its Command Line Interface (CLI) to help companies with the pending GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulatory compliance (scheduled for May 25, 2018), along with overall corporate data governance needs. The CLI is currently available for the following NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Couchbase, DynamoDB, and Azu...
The first data modeling tool for Couchbase NoSQL databases is here
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hackolade has introduced the first data modeling software tool for the Couchbase NoSQL database community. This software is compatible with Couchbase versions 4.0 through the latest 4.6 release. Standard features of Hackolade, already popular with NoSQL database users, have been adapted to support the specifications of Couchbase. Users for the new release of Hacko...
NoSQL provider Couchbase releases a new data platform
Friday, February 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Couchbase, Inc. announced a new release of their data platform that powers web, mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) applications for digital businesses. The enhanced product suite now provides easier global application deployments, advanced security capabilities and greater development flexibility, and includes Server 4.6, Sync Gateway 1.4, Kafka Connector 3.0 and Spark...
App intelligence with bad performance destroys engagement
Thursday, January 19, 2017 by Leena Joshi
Application intelligence is a given in todays digital world. App consumers have come to expect that Netflix will fill the post-binge void with insightful viewing recommendations, Facebook will never run out of friend suggestions, banks will alert them to unusual credit card activity, and Pandora will always know the perfect song to play next.But while users may have the...
MarkLogic 9 NoSQL Database Released in Preview
Friday, May 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
MarkLogic has released MarkLogic 9 in preview, offering updates to the NoSQL database for integrating data from silos. MarkLogic is optimized for structured and unstructured data providing the ability allowing to store, manage, query and search across JSON, XML, RDF, geospatial data, text, and large binaries.New features in MarkLogic 9 include:Data Integration: MarkLogi...
New Couchbase Mobile Database Platform Adds Updated Security for Apps
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Couchbase has announced the general availability of its Couchbase Mobile 1.2 NoSQL database, a new release that offers enhanced enterprise class administration and security.Couchbase Mobile is a NoSQL database solution that delivers NoSQL to mobile. It's engineered to provide fast and consistent access to data, with or without a network connection, removing network depe...
Aerospike NoSQL Database Adds New Functionality for WebScale Applications
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Aerospike has released the latest version of its NoSQL database offering new features that provide more personalized applications, more efficiency and greater stability across public and private clouds. The Aerospike platform is a distributed NoSQL database and key-value store architected for web-scale applications. It provides a high-performance database that can ...
Basho Technologies Releases Distributed NoSQL Database Platform for IoT
Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
Basho Technologies has launched Basho Riak TS, a distributed NoSQL database architected to aggregate and analyze large amounts of sequenced, unstructured data generated from the Internet of Things (IoT) and other time series data sources. Riak Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database and key/value store optimized for fast reads and writes of time series data. It pro...
Oracle Releases 24 New Cloud Services
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform offerings with more than 24 new cloud services for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.The Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications, extend existing ...
Pivotal has updated its Pivotal Big Data Suite Including Apache Hadoop Distribution
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Pivotal has updated its Pivotal Big Data Suite including upgrades to its enterprise-grade Pivotal HD Apache Hadoop distribution, and up to 100 performance improvements for its analytic solutions, including Pivotal Greenplum Database, which comes with the cost-based Pivotal Query Optimizer for big data. These advancements are designed to help customers manage growin...
Prerequisites for a Successful Enterprise Continuous Delivery Implementation
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Cyrille Le Clerc
Continuous Delivery as a methodology and tool to meet the ever-increasing demand to deliver better software faster is fast gaining the attention of businesses today. Continuous Delivery, with its emphasis on keeping software in a release-ready state at all times, is a natural evolution from continuous integration and agile software development practices. However, ...
Amazon AWS Mobile SDK for Unity3D Game Development in Developer Preview
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s AWS recently launched an update to the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity developers. The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity helps games handle cloud storage along with identity and user state management directly from within the Unity developer environment.The SDK is currently available in Developer Preview containing a set of .NET classes that enables games written with Unity to ...
IoT and Connected Wearables: What is the Real Opportunity for Developers
Thursday, January 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I’ve talked ad nauseam through a number of recent articles about how CES has effectively launched the year of IoT and connected technology. It’s not that I’m a broken record, it’s just the fact that a large number of the information sent to our editorial department has been IoT related in the last couple of weeks.A case in point is the Application Developers Alliance re...
Aerospike's Impressive New Google Benchmark
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google recently featured Aerospike in its new benchmark on its blog announcing the Aerospike In-Memory NoSQL database is now available with Click-to-Deploy on Google Compute Engine. Sunil Sayyaparaju, Director of Product & Technology at Aerospike blogged on Google about the company seeing Ivan Santa Maria Filho, Performance Engineering ...
New Click to Deploy Option for MEAN Development Stack on Google Compute Engine
Saturday, August 30, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
With the new click to deploy MEAN development stack on Google Compute Engine, developers can now launch a complete MEAN development stack ready for development with a single button click. Click to deploy for MEAN handles all software installs and setting up a sample app to get started. The Google Cloud Platform is a set of modular cloud-based services that allow de...
Basho Offers Amazon S3 Enhancements to Object Storage Software
Monday, August 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
Basho, the creator and developer of the Riak distributed NoSQL database, has introduced Riak CS 1.5 and Riak CS 1.5 Enterprise, Basho’s distributed object storage software. Riak CS (cloud storage) is open source software built on top of Riak, used to build public or private clouds, or, as storage to power applications and services. Riak CS 1.5 offers new ...
Gupta Releases New Version of Its HTML5 Web Application Development Platform
Friday, July 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Gupta Technologies has released the latest version of its mobile enterprise development tool, TD Mobile version 1.1. This new version enhances capabilities for data connectivity without requiring developers to write any code, as well as support for NoSQL databases.TD Mobile is a development solution for building HTML5 web applications for a cross-platform expe...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Offers Mobile Developers New Services
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upped the ante in its efforts to woo mobile developers to use its services to build, deploy, and scale mobile applications. It has introduced a number of new services as part of the AWS platform.Amazon CognitoAmazon Cognito is a new service that provides user identity and data synchronization that lets developers create apps that authentica...
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