databases
MongoDB CEO: “It wasn’t AI...”
"I will clearly say it wasn't AI that drove the acquisition of workloads. It was really sharp execution by go-to-market teams.”
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FerretDB goes GA: Gives you MongoDB, without the MongoDB...
A new open source database, FerretDB, aims to make it easy for anyone to use MongoDB, without having to be bound by the latter’s more restrictive Server Side Public Licence (SSPL) – and is now generally available (GA). FerretDB, GA under a permissive Apache 2.0 licence from April 2023,
Enterprise IT
The BMW/Mercedes honesty problem - Why are NoSQL people still trotting out myths?
In this month's column for The Stack, former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker is a little frustrated with SQL myths and a lack of database category salesperson knowledge. Or is it ethics? Some things in life are complicated: tax; love; the point of Tottenham
Enterprise IT
How to buy a next-gen database
"Migrating away from legacy infrastructure isn't without risk, but the greater risk is of inaction"
Cloud
What IS this new open source S3 file client from Amazon?
Amazon has open-sourced a new file client for S3 called Mountpoint for Amazon S3 that makes it “easy” for Linux-based applications to connect directly to Amazon S3 buckets and access objects using file APIs – not something that has always been easy or indeed possible for Linux-based large-scale analytics applications. Mountpoint
Enterprise IT
Bloomberg, Man Group team up to develop open source "ArcticDB" database
"Build it or buy it?" That's been answered here...
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Big cloud service providers too often operating like bad old IBM
"I see tech vendors using customer naiveté to reproduce 1980s and 90s style lock-in and price gouging."
Enterprise IT
2023’s first mega tech deal is in -- and a sign of things to come in the database world
It could well be a year of significant database consolidation...
Enterprise IT
Introducing Apache Ignite, an open source dark horse...
Ignite is increasingly underpinning production workloads
Cloud
Stuck with on-prem infrastructure? There are ways to bring in cloud benefits
On-prem infrastructure is here to stay for many orgs, writes Andrew Oliver.
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Cracking the code on high-scale data pipelines
Change Data Capture powered by event streaming...
Enterprise IT
Down in the Goldman Sachs IT engine room, old school and open source rub shoulders
Goldman Sachs may have over $2 trillion in assets under supervision. But in its IT engine room, like many large organisations, the investment bank relies heavily on free and open source software (OSS) as well as some aging yet still widely deployed commercial databases -- including to help it serve