No-Nonsense Guide to Distributed Databases
I got my first DBA job 15 years ago, and quite a few things have changed since then. The amount of data exploded, we saw the rise of NoSQL, and business logic moved away from being stored in relational databases to applications. To this day, the three pillars of reliability, scalability, and maintainability are the […]
Oracle Extends Capabilities of Enterprise Manager Platform
Oracle today announced it has updated its core management platform to provide capabilities that make it easier to manage a hybrid cloud computing environment spanning millions of endpoints. The latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c, in addition to greater scalability, also provides support for dynamic groups, dynamic runbooks, automated workload analysis, monitoring templates, […]
Redis Labs Extends Reach of In-Memory Database
At its online RedisConf 2021 event, Redis Labs today detailed how the company’s in-memory database will be employed to drive real-time applications that are at the core of most digital business transformation initiatives. Yiftach Shoolman, Redis Labs CTO and co-founder, said there are four initiatives at the core of the Redis Labs effort to replace […]
Teleport Adds Database Support to Security Gateway
Teleport announced today it has added support for databases to a security gateway, delivered as a cloud service, that is currently used to secure Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters. Ev Kontsevoy, CEO, said Teleport intends to extend the reach of the security gateway up the entire stack of IT infrastructure that developers routinely use to […]
Introduction to Materialized Views
More often than not, the types of queries that use materialized views are both faster, and use fewer resources than those that are still processing queries directly to base tables. But the key to understanding the potential that materialized views bring with them involves first understanding as much about them as possible. What is a […]
Survey: The State of Database DevOps
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […]
DevSecOps Implementation: It’s About the Data
It seems we are constantly barraged with, “So-and-so announced that their systems had been breached and 80,000 user records were stolen,” notices. In fact, https://haveibeenpwned.com/ lists ten billion hacked accounts. That is no surprise. Databases exist to pool related data together. Even NoSQL type databases, which some saw as an opportunity for wildly disparate data […]
Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep’s CEO, said as IT environments become more complex, thanks to the rise of microservices and cloud-native computing platforms, existing monitoring and observability tools will not […]
DataStax Delivers on Open APIs Commitment
DataStax announced today the general availability of the open source Stargate application programming interface (API) framework for building applications on the Cassandra database. Ed Anuff, chief product officer at DataStax, said Stargate will make it easier for developers to use de facto standard REST API, GraphQL API, schemaless Document API or JSON to build applications […]
TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps mParticle in Secure Remote Access
In this interview for TechStrong TV, I am joined by strongDM CEO Elizabeth Zalman and mParticle CISO Dave Anderson. Dave shares with us how mParticle uses strongDM proxy services to rapidly enable the expanding mParticle team to access infrastructure, assets and applications necessary for mParticle to fulfill its mission to its customers. With the rapid […]
Oracle Launches Managed JSON Database Service
Oracle today unfurled as standalone Autonomous JSON Database service that it will manage on behalf of developers that require a document database. Gerald Venzl, a developer evangelist and distinguished product manager for Oracle, said the Autonomous JSON Database service is based on support for JSON data types that Oracle currently provides in its Autonomous Database […]
DataStax Brings AIOps to Cassandra Database Management
DataStax today unveiled a private beta release of artificial intelligence tool dubbed Vector that provides advice on how to optimize clusters running the open source Cassandra wide column store database. Vector analyzes individual nodes and then compares behavior to other nodes in the cluster to identify opportunities to improve deployments. Ed Anuff, chief product officer […]
MongoDB, Storj Labs Work to Reduce Data Security Costs
MongoDB Inc. and Storj Labs announced today they have jointly created a backup service for the open source MongoDB database that leverages a global network for excess storage capacity. Storj Labs has created a Tardigrade Decentralized Cloud Storage Service based on an open source object storage system that is compatible with the S3 application programming […]
Hasura Launches Beta of GraphQL-Based Remote Joins Tool
Hasura today announced the public beta of Remote Joins, which makes use of an open source GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (API) to join disparate data sources residing in different repositories. Company CEO Tanmai Gopal said Remote Joins extends a GraphQL engine the company has developed around a project that is now hosted […]
Datical Embraces Liquibase Identity
Datical today announced that it will now operate under the moniker Liquibase to better reflect the open source tool it provides for automating database releases. At the same time, the company is promising to make it easier to upgrade from the Liquibase Pro edition of its software to Liquibase Business, a new edition that provides […]
DevOps Chats: Liquibase, Open Source and Databases, with Datical
Datical has been a leader in DevOps for databases since even before the term was used. What many may not realize was that the open source Liquibase project was a major contributor to Datical’s success. So it should be no surprise that in filling the open president’s seat, they would tap an open source veteran. […]
DataStax to Support Multiple Distributions of Cassandra
DataStax today announced it will provide support services for any distribution of the open source Cassandra database via a subscription offering dubbed DataStax Luna. The company also announced it has made available two additional free tools in the form of DataStax Apache Kafka Connector for integrating Cassandra with the open source real-time streaming engine, and […]
Should Your Company Use DBaaS?
From SaaS to IaaS, companies are rapidly moving to the cloud to gain huge agility and cost benefits. So, is it time for your company to take advantage of database as a service (DBaaS)? Here’s a high-level discussion to help you along your decision path. First, it’s important to distinguish DBaaS from simply running a […]
BMC Extends DevOps Reach to Db2 Databases
BMC Software is extending the reach of its campaign to bring DevOps to the mainframe to the IBM Db2 databases that run on the venerable platform. John McKenny, senior vice president, ZSolutions Strategy and Innovation at BMC, said BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 makes it possible for DevOps teams to automate changes to the Db2 […]
Lessons Learned From the Salesforce Outage
Everyone has bad days. Every company has been through some kind of outage due to a buggy database deployment. Even the best of the best, with highly trained staff, world-class best practices and well-thought-out processes make mistakes. On May 17, Salesforce.com had a bad day. What Happened? The company deployed a faulty database change script […]
4 Steps to Introduce DevSecOps to Database Development
Although DevOps was implemented within application development, there is a growing awareness that including the database within DevOps processes is vital to success. We live in a data-driven world and many front-end applications use a database at the back end to collect, process and store customer and user data. The faster development of applications that […]
Is Your Digital Product Ready for International Prime Time?
When a digital product is developed in and for a particular geography and market, the enterprise and developer/architect function is focused on getting it to market first. Once it matures and receives greater engagement, enterprise is then looking to continuously add and develop a stable product that is feature-rich, scalable and robust. So, when the […]
The Time for Time Series Data
More than four years ago, we launched InfluxDB, an open source time series platform. In the years since, time series technology has become increasingly popular; according to DB-Engines, over the last 24 months time series has been the fastest growing database category. This popularity is fueled by the “sensorification” of the physical world (i.e., IoT) […]