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Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted data.
Google Cloud's AlloyDB for PostgreSQL has moved into public preview, and as a Postgres-compatible, fully managed DBaaS (database-as-a-service), will take on offerings from AWS and Microsoft in the hot PostgreSQL market.
The research behind the horizontally scalable, SQL-compatible database has spawned imitators, but Google's private network is the real secret sauce
The next version of Microsoft's flagship database will run Python scripts, with full access to Python third-party libraries, as native T-SQL stored procedures
NoSQL specialist MongoDB seeking to reduce barriers to entry for its database-as-a-service
The project allows for graph data to be kept in a distributed in-memory, key-value store and crunched at scale
Bare metal servers, a focus on hosted databases and application development are keys
Admins, act now to avoid ransomware and other forms of extortion -- you won't likely get your data back even when you pay
The open source database includes Elasticsearch-style full-text search, SQL querying, uncomplicated clustering, and unpack-and-go installation
The ColumnStore OLAP offering claims to be highly cost-effective, but other open source (and cloud-centric) competition looms