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Google Cloud Unveils AlloyDB AI: Transforming PostgreSQL with Advanced Vector Embeddings and AI
During the recent Google Cloud Next, Google announced AlloyDB AI in preview as an integral part of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, allowing developers to build generative (gen) Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications leveraging large language models (LLMs) with their real-time operational data through built-in, end-to-end support for vector embeddings.
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Intra-Account Collection Copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB in Public Preview
Microsoft recently introduced the public preview of Intra-Account Collection Copy for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, allowing users to copy collections within the same account - offering enhanced data management and migration capabilities.
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Google Expands Vertex AI Search and Conversation Capabilities
At its Google Cloud Next conference, Google officially introduced new capabilities for its enterprise AI platform, Vertex AI, which aim to enable more advanced user workflows, among other things.
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External REST Endpoint Invocation in SQL Azure Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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Redis 7.2 Now Available with Scalable Search, Auto Tiering, Triggers and Functions
Redis Inc recently announced the unified release of Redis 7.2, which includes several new features like auto-tiering, native triggers, and a preview of an enhanced, scalable search capability that provides increased performance for query and search scenarios, including vector similarity search (VSS).
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Vector Engine for Amazon Opensearch Serverless Now in Preview
AWS announced the preview release of vector storage and search capability within Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. The capability is intended to support machine learning augmented search experiences and generative AI applications.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 RC1, Apache Camel 4.0, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for August 14th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, Apache Camel 4.0.0, Payara Platform and point and milestone releases of: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Modulith, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Project Reactor, Hibernate Search, Infinispan, JHipster React Native, JBang, Piranha, Byte Buddy, JobRunr, Arquillian and Gradle.
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Pinterest Revamps Its Asynchronous Computing Platform with Kubernetes and Apache Helix
Pinterest created the next-generation asynchronous computing platform, Pacer, to replace the older solution, Pinlater, which the company outgrew, resulting in scalability and reliability challenges. The new architecture leverages Kubernetes for scheduling job-execution workers and Apache Helix for cluster management.
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Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo
Deliveroo introduced Apache Flink into its technology stack for enriching and merging events consumed from Apache Kafka or Kinesis Streams. The company opted to use AWS Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) service to manage Apache Flink clusters on AWS and shared its experiences from running Flink applications on KDA.
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Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture
InfluxData recently unveiled the system architecture for InfluxDB 3.0, its newest time-series DB. Its architecture encompasses four major components responsible for data ingestion, querying, compaction, and garbage collection and includes two main storage types. The architecture caters to operating the DB on-premise and natively on major cloud providers.
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Oracle Data Provider for .Net: Asynchronous Programming, OpenTelemetry, and More
Oracle prereleased a new version of Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET), its ADO.NET data access library for the Oracle database. The new version, 23c, is available as a Developer Release, which means it is still not ready for production use. However, it already brings two of the most highly community-requested features: asynchronous programming and support to OpenTelemetry.
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MySQL Changes Versioning Model, Adds Innovation and LTS Releases
Oracle recently announced a change in the versioning model for MySQL, introducing the MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases. The first innovation release is MySQL 8.1.0 , which includes InnoDB cluster read replicas.
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Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK Performance Edition, GraalVM JDK 21 Builds, Open Liberty, Quarkus
This week's Java roundup for July 31st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.7, GraalVM JDK 21 Developer Builds, Liberica JDK Performance Edition, JNoSQL 1.0.1, Spring Tools 4.19.1, Open Liberty 23.0.0.8-beta and 23.0.0.7, Micronaut 4.0.3, Quarkus 3.2.3 and 2.16.9, Apache Camel 4.0.0-RC2, JHipster Lite 0.40, Ktor 2.3.3, Maven 3.9.4 and Gradle 8.3-RC3.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds pgvector to Support Embeddings from Generative AI
AWS recently announced that the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search. Aurora is the latest managed PostgreSQL database supporting the open-source extension to store and search embeddings from machine learning models.
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Pfizer Uses Serverless Architecture on AWS to Scale Processing of Digital Biomarkers
Pfizer upgraded the serverless architecture for processing digital biomarker data at scale to make it more flexible and configurable. They created a framework that uses a file processing pipeline built with AWS Step Functions and other serverless services, as well as a custom Python package for data ingestion and processing.