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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.
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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.
How vectorization improves database performance
Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it.
10 more essential MySQL performance tuning tips
Schema design, indexes, queries, configs, I/O... what could go wrong? Follow these 10 essential tips to keep your MySQL servers humming.
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.
Oracle debuts MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse to take on rivals
The new lakehouse service, designed to quickly load and query up to 400TB of data, will compete with offerings from Oracle rivals that have also jumped on the lakehouse concept, including Snowflake, Google, AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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.
Oracle MySQL HeatWave comes to AWS
Oracle’s MySQL database service supporting mixed analytical, transaction processing, and machine learning workloads is now available on Amazon Web Services.
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.
Why database design choices matter to developers
Rather than punt database design decisions to a cloud service or third-party provider, understand what you want to achieve and how best to deliver on that goal.
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.
7 key new features in SingleStoreDB
SingleStoreDB unifies transactions and analytics in the same engine to power real-time, data-intensive applications. Here’s what’s new.
Apache Doris just 'graduated': Why care about this SQL data warehouse
The open source, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical database will take on the likes of ClickHouse, MariaDB, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, and hyperscaler services such as Google BigQuery, Amazon RedShift and Microsoft...
How MongoDB's NoSQL database is encroaching on relational database turf
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.
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.
Review: YugabyteDB does PostgreSQL proud
YugabyteDB 2.13 is a highly scalable, distributed version of PostgreSQL that combines compelling ideas from Google Cloud Spanner and Amazon Aurora—and serves as a Cassandra-compatible database too.
