Solutions Review, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
The When, Why & How In Switching To Open Source Databases
For well over a decade, enterprise adoption of open-source database technologies has been on a steady rise.
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linuxiac, Monday, January 27th, 2025
MySQL 9.2 Released, Adds JavaScript Transactional API
Explore MySQL 9.2 release highlights, including new features, deprecated items, and removed functionality, for improved database management and performance.
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InforQ, Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Databases In 2024: Growth, Change And Controversy
Andrew Pavlo's annual retrospective on the database world has recently been released, covering trends and innovations from the past year.
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OpenSource For U, Friday, January 24th, 2025
MongoDB: An Overview
Discover all that you can do with MongoDB, the popular cross-platform, document-oriented database.
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Linux IAC, Monday, January 6th, 2025
Here's The Most Popular Databases For 2024
DB-Engines publishes the 2024 database popularity stats. See the leading platforms in data management for the past year.
more → DevOps.com, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
The Importance Of Database Release Automation Platforms In The Era Of Digital Transformation
The 2024 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps report highlights ongoing transformations in technology, emphasizing themes like AI adoption, platform engineering and the continued evolution of software delivery performance.
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InfoQ, Friday, November 1st, 2024
PostgreSQL 17 Released with Improved Vacuum Process and Performance Gains
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group recently announced the general availability of PostgreSQL 17, the latest version of the popular open-source database.
more → Security Boulevard, Friday, October 11th, 2024
Understanding Your SQL Database: A Comprehensive Guide
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a powerful computer language designed to interact with relational databases, providing a robust and efficient way to organize and manage information. An SQL database is a type of database that uses SQL to interact with, manipulate, and manage data. It operates on a structured format where data is stored in rows and columns.
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Solutions Review, Thursday, October 10th, 2024
Tech Sector An Outlier In Adoption, Evolution Of Database Technologies
In every industry, data drives business. Not just one kind of data and not just data from one source, but multiple data types, streams, and sources. Data is managed, massaged, analyzed, and used in different ways.
more → InfoQ, Saturday, October 5th, 2024
Valkey 8.0 Now GA With Improved Memory Efficiency
The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis.
more → How-To Geek, Friday, October 4th, 2024
MongoDB 8.0 Release Raises the Bar for Database Performance
MongoDB, a leading NoSQL database platform, has launched version 8.0, offering a substantial performance improvement over its predecessors.
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Tripwire, Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Major Database Security Threats And How To Prevent Them
Human nature tells us that we'll go for the low-hanging fruit before climbing a tree. Since threat actors are (after all) human, the same applies to them.
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Forrester, Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
Unleashing The First Forrester Wave For Vector Databases
Forrester has just released its inaugural evaluation, The Forrester Wave: Vector Databases, Q3 2024, marking a significant milestone in this rapidly evolving category.
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Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
Elastic Improves Search Experience With Additions To Its Vector Database
In the AI competition, Elastic is setting a course of its own with a steady addition of new AI product capabilities. The company's latest AI advancements include vector search that powers Elasticsearch, its flagship search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene.
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Gestalt IT, Thursday, September 26th, 2024
PostgreSQL 17 Extends Further Extends Capabilities Of Open Source Database
The latest update to the PostgreSQL database adds incremental backup capabilities that eliminate the need to rely on third-party tools along with a pg_createsubscriber tool that makes logical replication a more viable option for large databases by speeding up the initial data copy process.
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Analytics Insight, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
SQL Best Practices For Data Engineers
From using robust SQL editor to using subqueries and CTEs, here are some the essential SQL practices for data engineers
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ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
Storage Technology Explained: Vector Databases At The Core Of AI
We look at the use of vector data in AI and how vector databases work, plus vector embedding, the challenges for storage of vector data and the key suppliers of vector database products
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Analytics Insight, Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Top SQL Tutorials For Advanced Database Management
Explore the top SQL tutorials to enhance your skills in advanced database management and optimization.
more → Analytics Insight, Friday, September 6th, 2024
Choosing The Right Vector Database For Your Needs
Choosing the Right Vector Database: High-Dimensional Vectors, Similarity Search, and more
more → readwrite, Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
Too Much Data? Here's How To Scale Up With Database Server In Australia
As businesses continue to generate massive amounts of data through customer-facing websites and internal corporate systems, the need for scalable databases becomes increasingly crucial. With data requests on the rise, your back-end systems need to handle spikes in traffic.
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Blocks&Files, Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
Pinecone Vector Database Available On AWS, Azure, And Google Clouds
Pinecone has made its AWS-supporting vector database available on the Azure and Google clouds and added a bulk object storage insert capability.
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Analytics Insight, Friday, August 9th, 2024
Top Databases To Use In Data Science Projects
Top databases to use in Data Science projects: a comprehensive guide for Data Scientists
more → InfoWorld, Monday, July 15th, 2024
How To Choose The Right Database For Your Application
From performance to programmability, the right database makes all the difference. Here are 13 key questions to guide your selection.
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ComputerWeekly, Monday, July 8th, 2024
Trends In The Cloud Database Market
The cloud holds a large - and growing - percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.
more → Analytics Insight, Monday, July 8th, 2024
NoSQL vs SQL Databases: Choosing the Right Solution
NoSQL vs SQL databases: Use cases and Characteristics
more → Security Boulevard, Monday, July 8th, 2024
Database Penetration Testing: Secure Your Data
Today, organisations store a lot of sensitive data in their database systems. This could be customer info, financial records, intellectual property, etc. Protecting this from unauthorised access is key; database penetration testing helps achieve this by finding holes in the system.
more → datanami, Monday, June 24th, 2024
When Should You Choose A Dedicated Vector Database?
If you're using a large language model (LLM) to develop a generative AI application, chances are pretty good that a vector database is somewhere in the mix.
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techradar.com, Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
A Shockingly High Number Of Active SQL Servers Are No Longer Supported
A lot of businesses need to upgrade their IT
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Matching The Cloud Database To Real Workload Needs
It's easy to see why running enterprise applications in the cloud seems like a no-brainer for chief information officers (CIOs) and other C-suite executives.
more → APONO, Friday, May 31st, 2024
Top 7 Database Security Best Practices
Safeguarding your data is not just an option-it's a necessity. Cyber threats are evolving at an unprecedented pace, and your database could be the next target.
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The Register, Friday, May 31st, 2024
Codd Almighty! Has It Been Half A Century Of SQL Already?
The Reg talks to Donald Chamberlin, Michael Stonebraker and more about the legendary programming language
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ITProToday, Friday, May 31st, 2024
3 Enterprise-Ready Open Source Vector Databases For Your AI Workloads
Vector databases are becoming increasingly indispensable for AI workloads. Luckily, there are fully open source vector databases available that meet this need.
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insideBIGDATA, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Unleashing The Power Of Graph And Vector Databases In The Age Of Generative AI
The rise of generative AI has transformed the landscape of data storage and analysis, but it's also showcasing the importance of key data management approaches, especially between graph and vector databases as powerful tools for this new era.
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Solutions Review, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Old Is New Again: The Primacy Of Open Source Databases
Data reigns supreme in today's digital landscape, forming the backbone of businesses across sectors-from financial services to telecommunications and e-commerce. As enterprises grapple with ever-increasing volumes of data, the demand for efficient, reliable and scalable data management systems has never been more critical.
more → OpenSourceForU, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Big Data And Hadoop: An Overview
Data is being generated every moment of the day around the world, and can give organisations important insights into the acceptability of their products, among other things. Hadoop, a framework for distributed data analysis, is designed for the storage, processing and analysis of large datasets in a distributed computing environment. Let's see how it works with Big Data.
more → datanami, Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Forrester Slices And Dices The Vector Database Market
The large language model (LLM) revolution has transformed vector databases from obscure search tech into must-have products for AI success. But which vector database features should you look for, and which vendors are innovating? The analysts at Forrester recently dug into the field to provide answers in a new report.
more → TechRepublic, Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
8 Best B2B Database Providers For 2024
In this guide, we explore the top B2B database providers that collect and manage reliable and accurate data for your business' marketing and sales needs.
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Dataversity, Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
SQL at 50: A Lesson in How to Stay Relevant Around Data
Structured query language (SQL) is now 50 years old. The original paper for SQL (then called SEQUEL) was published in May 1974 by Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin, and provided a guide for data manipulation based on a set of simple commands.
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TechCrunch, Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Why Vector Databases Are Having A Moment As The AI Hype Cycle Peaks
Vector databases are all the rage, judging by the number of startups entering the space and the investors ponying up for a piece of the pie. The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and the generative AI (GenAI) movement have created fertile ground for vector database technologies to flourish.
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Linux Magazine, Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Choosing An Open Source Database Management System
Open source database management systems offer greater flexibility and lower costs while avoiding vendor lock-in. Finding the right one depends on your project's needs.
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DATAVERSITY, Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
Data Warehouse vs. Database
What are data warehouses and databases? How are they different, and when should you use a data warehouse vs. database to store data? Below, we will look at the differences and similarities between them.
more → VentureBeat, Monday, March 18th, 2024
Vector Databases: Shiny Object Syndrome And The Case Of A Missing Unicorn
Welcome to 2024, where if you're not riding the generative AI wave, you might as well be stuck in 2022 - practically ancient history in the AI timeline. Every organization has an AI roadmap now, from AI pillows to AI toothbrushes, and if you still have not hurriedly put a plan together, let me suggest a three-step roadmap for you.
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InfoQ, Saturday, March 9th, 2024
Google BigQuery Introduces Vector Search
Google recently announced that BigQuery now supports vector search. The new functionality enables vector similarity search required by data and AI use cases such as semantic search, similarity detection, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a large language model (LLM).
more → Analytics Insight, Saturday, March 9th, 2024
SQL Databases For Data Science: Top 10 Options
SQL databases play a crucial role in data science, providing a structured and organized way to store, manage, and analyze large amounts of data. In this guide, we will explore the top 10 SQL databases for data science, based on their popularity, features, and suitability for data science applications.
more → The Next Platform, Friday, March 8th, 2024
Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray
As we have noted before, vector databases aren't new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades.
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InfoQ, Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
The Hidden Cost Of Using Managed Databases
The use of managed relational databases has surged recently due to benefits in hosting, scalability, and cost. Users need to monitor service costs, which include egress fees, and revise default settings for their workloads.
more → Analytics Insight, Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Top 10 Data Modeling Tools For Large Databases: Streamline Your Database Processes
In today's data-driven world, effective data modeling is essential for organizations to manage and manipulate vast amounts of information efficiently. Whether it's designing new databases, optimizing existing structures, or ensuring data integrity, having the right tools at your disposal can make all the difference.
more → CIO, Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Vector Database Vs. Knowledge Graph: Making The Right Choice When Implementing RAG
Whether IT leaders opt for the precision of a Knowledge Graph or the efficiency of a Vector DB, the goal remains clear-to harness the power of RAG systems and drive innovation, productivity, and enhanced user experiences.
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Data Science Central, Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Decoding Different Types Of Databases: A Comparison
In the digital landscape, the backbone of any robust application or system resides in its database architecture.
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Analytics Insight, Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Generative AI vs. Conventional Database: What You Should Know
Learn the similarities and differences between Generative AI and conventional database
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