An Introduction to Columnar Databases
By Charles Mahler Choosing the right database for your application can be tough. The debate between SQL and NoSQL databases is ongoing, with questions around whether to store data in a relational database or...
Category: NewSQL, XML, RDF Data Stores, RDBMS
On Automating InfluxDB Deployments at the Edge with balena: Q&A with Marc Pous and Jay Clifford
Q1. What is the business of balena.io? Marc: At balena we help our customers deploy and manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices across the globe. The mission of balena is to unlock the promise...
On the Technology Requirements for a Database to Support Minecraft. Q&A with Charlie Joseph
” I chose SingleStore’s self-managed solution for Analyse, as it was more cost-effective for a bootstrapped startup. At the beginning, when every dollar counts, opting for a cloud solution wasn’t financially sensible.” Q1. Please tell...
On Vector Databases. Q&A with Charles Xie.
” Building a vector database at scale is a complex and challenging task. Data volume is one of the most critical factors since the fundamental user requirement is to query at least a billion...
On the Open Source Database market. Q&A with Peter Zaitsev
Q1. How is the current status of the Open Source Databases market? There is a lot of innovation going on in the database market and a lot of those innovations spill to Open Source...
Open Source projects within Artificial Intelligence and the Data Space.
The LF AI & Data Foundation supports open source projects within artificial intelligence and the data space. 1chipML is an open source library for basic numerical crunching and machine learning for microcontrollers. Acumos AI...
Milvus
Vector database built for scalable similarity search Open-source, highly scalable, and blazing fast. https://milvus.io
Amazon RDS for SQL Server: Cross-Region Read Replicas for Disaster Recovery. Q&A with Kambiz Aghili.
“With cross-Region read replicas, customers can horizontally scale their workloads across different AWS regions to meet their growing compliance, durability, and performance objectives.” Q1: What new feature was released and why is this feature important?...
On Change Data Capture. Q&A with Gary Hagmueller
“CDC is the gold standard for moving data from an operational system to another (think migration) or an analytical system (think replication). “ Q1. What are the main challenges when moving high-volume, high-velocity data...
Announcing Couchbase Capella™
The introduction Couchbase Capella just made application development a whole lot faster, easier, and more affordable. Start your Free Trial Capella is our easy-as-SQL hosted Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that provides flexibility and performance at...