According to a new press release, Neo4j, a prominent graph database and analytics company, has unveiled significant enhancements to boost the performance of cloud and self-managed customers. These updates promise an increase in the speed of analytical queries, the ability to handle both transactional and analytical processing within a single database, and real-time tracking of […]
Types of Databases and Their Uses
There are several types of databases, and their differing designs process data in different ways. Providing access to information is the primary purpose of a database. They can be used for a variety of tasks, ranging from storing photos to buying items online to analyzing marketing and sales data. Large amounts of information can be […]
Open-Source Cloud Databases: Security Best Practices
A cloud database runs on a cloud computing platform that delivers it to users as a service. Cloud services offer various cloud databases, including SQL and NoSQL databases. Here are the two main cloud database deployment models: Use a virtual machine (VM) to run your databases on the cloud privately Purchase access to a database […]
How to Handle Throttling in Cloud Databases
Click to learn more about author Niels Brinch. Retry. Yes, retry is the answer and conclusion of this article, but let’s spend a little time looking at the problem on a higher level — what solutions there are and what the consequences are of those solutions. What is Throttling? If you are used to having […]
What Is a Non-Relational Database?
A non-relational database describes a database with flexible storage and retrieval. While NoSQL databases form a subset of non-relational databases, non-relational databases also encompass any system that deals with high volumes of unstructured data at a lower cost. Many non-relational databases support SQL-compatible queries too. Data lakes and cloud databases can also be considered non-relational […]
MongoDB Atlas Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation, EventBridge, PrivateLink
A recent press release states, “MongoDB, Inc., the leading, modern, general-purpose database platform, today announced a number of new features for its global cloud database, MongoDB Atlas, that make it seamless for users to deploy and run the service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Across all industries, businesses are increasingly opting to run their database […]
RavenDB Launches Managed Cloud Database Service
According to a recent press release, “RavenDB, a leading provider of database infrastructure solutions, today announced that the company has launched its new RavenDB Cloud managed database service. RavenDB Cloud performs all the daily tasks such as maintaining hardware servers, installation, configuration, monitoring internals and security for its users worldwide. RavenDB Cloud’s database cluster provides […]
How to Perform an Oracle Database Upgrade with Near Zero Downtime: An Overview
Click to learn more about author Gazanfurali Mohammed. Most cloud databases offer zero downtime for maintenance activities – such as software upgrades – by allowing rolling upgrades. In rolling upgrades, a few nodes are upgraded at a time while the rest of the nodes serve the production operations. In the case of Oracle databases, one […]
DataStax Announces DataStax Enterprise 6.7
According to a recent press release, “DataStax, the leading provider of the always-on, active-everywhere distributed hybrid cloud database built on Apache Cassandra™, today announced the availability of DataStax Enterprise 6.7 (DSE 6.7). DSE 6.7 delivers the leading distribution of Apache Cassandra with multi-workload support for operational analytics, geospatial search, increased data protection in the cloud, […]
EnterpriseDB Announces Oracle-compatible Postgres Cloud Database Service
A new press release states, “EnterpriseDB today launched Cloud Database Service, providing its enterprise-ready, EDB Postgres database with Oracle-compatible features now available as an on-demand service on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Database users are able to provision Postgres instances or highly-available clusters on the cloud with point-in-time-recovery (PITR), load balancing and auto-scaling. Developers […]