Not so long ago, in June 2020, we noted that a new database category seemed to be on the rise. Those databases are cloud-native, globally distributed, and SQL-compliant, a category also known as ...

Today's applications want it all, and the databases powering them are forced to follow: Auto-deployment and scalability both on-premise and in the cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, plus resilience, ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday. Having transformed ...

After two-and-a-half years in preview, Google’s Cloud SQL, the company’s fully managed MySQL database service, has now hit general availability. As with most Google services that hit this milestone, ...

Traditional relational databases have lost ground to the opportunity seen in NoSQL databases. But what if you can have the best of both worlds? That’s what Yugabyte aims to provide the market.

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Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was ...

Ahana Cloud for Presto turns a data lake on Amazon S3 into what is effectively a data warehouse, without moving any data. SQL queries run quickly even when joining multiple heterogeneous data sources.

Since the rise of the Web, SQL-based relational databases have been the dominant structured storage technology behind online applications. The past few years have seen the emergence of the cloud as a ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cloud, Microsoft announces a new SQL server that bridges the on-site/cloud gap. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...