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Lindsay Clark Tue 9 Mar 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share
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Swedish startup Logical Clocks is launching a new key-value database as a managed service, based on the MySQL derivative MySQL NDB Cluster.
The vendor told us its RonDB can be used to provide live data to machine learning models for real-time decision-making – as commonly used in online recommendations and fraud detection.
Although it has a history going back to the late 1990s, the new open-source distribution is currently in closed beta, with interested users encouraged to apply to participate. General availability is expected in the second quarter.
It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals
Lindsay Clark Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 18:43 UTC Share
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Graph database swashbuckler Neo4j has joined a throng of NoSQL vendors in selling its technology core as a fully managed cloud database.
While the move is seen as a necessary move to ease support loads, experts have questioned whether Neo4J is a strong architectural fit for the cloud era. Neo4j said its Aura Enterprise DBaaS would allow organisation to build graph-powered applications without worrying about infrastructure or maintenance.
Early adopters include Levi Strauss & Co, home improvement platform Adeo and credit reference agency Dun & Bradstreet, which spoke to
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Rockset, the company behind the indexing-obsessed database of the same name, has confirmed integration with Retool, a low-code platform with the aim of helping businesses build data-hungry internal applications.
The company imagines the tie up will help developers build internal tools for customer support, marketing operations, customer 360, fraud investigation, and logistics monitoring in a point and a click, avoiding the developer bottleneck for inter applications. Typically, these kinds of projects get queued up behind the technical team and they might never see the light of day because there are always priorities other than building some internal tool, Rockset founder and CEO Venkat Venkataramani told
Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks
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Analysis Tech stock sailed through an era-defining moment last week as recently IPO d cloud data warehouser Snowflake surpassed IBM in market capitalisation.
Investors collective imagination is decidedly unflattering for Big Blue. Leaving aside its undeniable role in the development of modern computing, it has around 350,000 employees (although declining) to Snowflake s 2,000.
The staggering $120bn Snowflake valuation offered pause for thought about this once-niche hole in the enterprise software market and the money flooding in has encouraged others to make a grab for it, claiming there is headroom for technical improvement.