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K8ssandra: Production-Ready Platform for Running Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes
DataStax recently released K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes. K8ssandra aims to provide a “production-ready platform”, and this includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring.
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PASS to Cease Operations on January 15
PASS, formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server, will cease operations on January 15. The non-profit organization, which was known primarily for its conferences, is unable to meet its financial obligations.
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Analyzing Large Amounts of Feedback to Learn from Users
Making it easy for users to give feedback and automating the collection of feedback helps to get more feedback faster. Using artificial intelligence, you can analyze large amounts of feedback to get insights and visualize trends. Sharing this information widely supports taking action to enhance your product and solve issues that users are having.
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The Benefits of Nostalgia: Q&A with Linda Rising
Remembering the past can bring about benefits; nostalgic reflection can make us more optimistic. Looking back leads us to feel there is meaning and purpose in our lives which enables us to better navigate the future and help us move forward.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2020
This year the annual re:invent conference organized by AWS was virtual, free and three weeks long. During multiple keynotes and sessions, AWS announced new features, improvements and cloud services. Here is a review of the main announcements impacting compute, database, storage, networking, machine learning and development.
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Microsoft Launches New Data Governance Service Azure Purview in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced a new data governance solution in public preview on its cloud platform called Azure Purview. This new service automates the discovery of data and cataloging while minimizing compliance risk and helps customers map all their data, no matter where it resides, to provide an end-to-end view of their data estate.
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AWS Announces New Database Service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview
During the AWS re:Invent keynote, AWS announced the new database service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview. The service is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible and ACID-compliant relational database engine that runs in the Amazon cloud and is open-source.
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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2
During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas.
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Distributed Key-Value Store etcd Graduates at CNCF
The CNCF announced the graduation of the etcd project - a distributed key-value store used by many open source projects and companies. Originally written at CoreOS, etcd was accepted into the CNCF incubation stage in 2018 and graduated in November 2020.
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Microsoft Releases .NET for Apache Spark 1.0
Last month, Microsoft released the first major version of .NET for Apache Spark, an open-source package that brings .NET development to the Apache Spark platform. The new release allows .NET developers to write Apache Spark applications using .NET user-defined functions, Spark SQL, and additional libraries such as Microsoft Hyperspace and ML.NET.
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Google Launches a New Serverless Database Migration Service
Recently, Google announced a new serverless Database Migrates Service (DMS) in preview. The service supports migrations of self-hosted MySQL databases, either on-premises or in the cloud, and managed databases from other clouds, to Cloud SQL for MySQL.
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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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AWS Announces Redis 6 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features such as Managed Role-Based Access Control, Client-Side caching and some significant operational improvements.
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AWS Releases Amazon Timestream into General Availability
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a serverless purpose-built database that exposes time-series data through SQL. With Amazon Timestream, customers can save time and costs in managing the lifecycle of time series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on user-defined policies.
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Oracle Introduces the MySQL Database Service on Its Cloud Infrastructure
In a recent blog post, Oracle introduced the MySQL Database Service in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service is now available as a fully-managed service running on Oracle Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure.