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PostgreSQL 16 advances query parallelism
Next major release of the major open source relational database, now in beta, brings performance improvements to query execution and to logical replication.
Open source FerretDB offers ‘drop-in replacement’ for MongoDB
FerretDB 1.0 is a stateless proxy that converts MongoDB protocol queries to SQL, using PostgreSQL as the database engine.
Google ambushes on-prem PostgreSQL with AlloyDB Omni
Google is previewing a downloadable, ML-tuned version of its PostgreSQL-compatible AlloyDB, which it claims is 2x faster than standard Postgres for transactional workloads and 100x faster for analytical queries.
EDB’s Postgres Distributed 5.0 boosts availability, performance
The distributed version of the open source, object-relational database system is available as an add-on, dubbed EDB Extreme High Availability, for EDB Enterprise and Standard plans, the company said.
Google makes AlloyDB for PostgreSQL available in 16 new regions
The PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed database-as-a-service will come with a new feature called cross-region replication, which is currently in private preview.
EnterpriseDB adds Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL
The new Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature will be shipped along with the company’s enterprise version of its database.
How Steampipe enables KPIs as code
CMD Solutions built tools for continuous controls assurance by using open-source Steampipe to define information security performance metrics as SQL statements.
10 common PostgreSQL mistakes and how to avoid them
PostgreSQL was built to handle a wide range of use cases, but flexibility also has a flip side. Make sure you’re not making these all-too-common design, configuration, tuning, and other mistakes.
AWS is changing
Announcements at AWS re:Invent show a kinder, gentler Amazon, ready to integrate its own services and third-party data sources.
3 key features in EDB PostgreSQL 15
Thoroughly tested on PostgreSQL 15.1, EDB’s new tools optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and operability. Here are the highlights.
Postgres is eating relational
It’s hard to compete with easy. PostgreSQL has a lot of great qualities, but being easy to use seals the deal for companies and consultants.
PostgreSQL 15 streamlines workload management, improves performance
The new features of the most popular open-source database include improved sort and compression, the MERGE command, and other workload management tools.
Materialize offers early release of its streaming database as a service
The startup's managed, distributed database service is designed to run queries against real-time data in a more cost-efficient manner than batch processing systems.
Visualizing the Hacker News API with HCL and SQL
Use Steampipe and GitHub Actions to create a ‘dashboard as code’ for exploring thousands of Hacker News stories, right up to the current hour.
Yugabyte adds Voyager migration service to its 2.15 database update
With the latest update, the company claims it is the first and only distributed SQL database to offer all three PostgreSQL isolation levels.
Tired of searching Slack, GitHub, and Google Drive separately? Do it all at once in SQL
When APIs are automatically database tables, it’s easy to combine search results from diverse APIs.
Why Google Cloud is battling AWS, Azure, in the red-hot PostgreSQL market
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.
Do your AWS deployments match your Terraform definitions? Use SQL to find out.
For belt-and-suspenders security and compliance, use SQL to query your Terraform files in the same way you query your AWS, Azure, or GCP services.