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Seattle Postgres: Inside Databricks Lakebase and Neon Serverless PostgreSQL

In 2025, Databricks announced Lakebase, a new category of databases, and launched it based on Neon Serverless PostgreSQL technology. In… Read More

The hot new thing at AWS re:Invent has nothing to do with AI

At AWS re:Invent, the biggest cheers weren’t for AI but for savings. AWS CEO Matt Garman unveiled new Database Savings Plans offering up to 35% off, highlighting how cost relief still hits harder than cutting-edge tech. Read More

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database

The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between… Read More

What to expect at Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2018: serverless, open source, and traffic

Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the cloud-computing agenda for 2019 this week over four days of keynote speeches… Read More

Microsoft updates its database story with SQL Server 2019 and new cloud database features

One of the most fundamental aspects of computing infrastructure will play a key role in Microsoft’s Ignite 2018 pitch to… Read More

SAP vows to take on Salesforce, as cloud vendors line up to pitch its database customers

Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and… Read More

How the rise of the internet of things prompted a new feature for Microsoft’s cloud database

Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference… Read More

FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project

Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by… Read More

Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle

Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the… Read More

Wall Street likes databases, as MongoDB soars over 30 percent in its IPO

Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison takes aim at Amazon Web Services, promises a new “self-driving” database

Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion… Read More

Microsoft introduces Azure Cosmos DB, a new database with a broad money-back guarantee

Microsoft plans to strengthen its database pitch to cloud customers Wednesday at Microsoft Build by unveiling Azure Cosmos DB, a… Read More

Microsoft’s SQL Server is getting an artificial intelligence mind-meld

Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would… Read More

Google Cloud Platform releases new database services, fighting AWS and Azure for corporate customers

Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud… Read More

IBM releases Graph, a service that can outperform SQL databases

IBM today announced the general availability of Graph, a service for the Bluemix cloud offering that the company said helps set… Read More

Amazon opens access to cloud database service

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) has officially opened to all users after three years of only being available to chosen… Read More

Microsoft to offer Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure

In a surprise show of support for a popular open-source technology, Microsoft says it will offer Hadoop-based distributions for Windows… Read More

Ignition continues blistering pace, leads $14 million round for Couchbase

Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm today announced that it has led a $14… Read More