Moscow-based Runa Capital has invested €3 million ($3.4 million) in MariaDB, the open-source database company that offers what began as a MySQL fork (Google and Wikipedia are big-name users). Runa, which… Read more »
Database startup MemSQL said today that it open sourced a new data transfer tool called MemSQL Loader that helps users haul over vast quantities of data from sources like Amazon S3… Read more »
NoSQL fan favorite MongoDB has purchased WiredTiger and its storage engine technology, and as part of the deal snags itself some database stars in Keith Bostic and Dr. Michael Cahill. Bostic was co-founder… Read more »
LinkedIn shed more light Tuesday on a big-data framework dubbed Gobblin that helps the social network take in tons of data from a variety of sources so that it can be… Read more »
Yes, there was a ton o’ news out of Amazon’s cloud conference, but also big Hadoop news in Hortonworks IPO plans and Microsoft continues its open-sourcey ways by opening up .NET… Read more »
At AWS Re:Invent, Amazon may be signaling an end to the race to the bottom with lots of higher-end products and services, but not a mention of price cuts. There is… Read more »
The new system, called TSAR, acts as a real-time data orchestrator and makes it easier for product teams to receive insights into Twitter’s data much faster than before. Read more »
MariaDB 10 is out, featuring a “Connect engine” that makes it easier to handle data from both traditional SQL databases and more web-scale NoSQL systems. The new functionality merits new editions… Read more »
The name pretty much says it all: WebScaleSQL. That’s the new open source project Facebook announced on Thursday, which includes early contributions from other web giants that have pushed MySQL to… Read more »