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Microsoft updates its planet-scale Cosmos DB database service

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Cosmos DB is undoubtedly one of the most interesting products in Microsoft’s Azure portfolio. It’s a fully managed, globally distributed multi-model database that offers throughput guarantees, a number of different consistency models and high read and write availability guarantees. Now that’s a mouthful, but basically, it means that developers can build a truly global product, […] Continue reading Microsoft updates its planet-scale Cosmos DB database service→

MariaDB acquires Clustrix

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MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on scalability. MariaDB will integrate Clustrix’s technology into its own database, which will allow it to offer its users a more scalable database service in the long […] Continue reading MariaDB acquires Clustrix→

Branch out your SQLite Database with LiteTree

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Whether you want some quick and dirty data storage, or simply don’t have that heavy requirements for your local database system, SQLite is always a good choice. With its portable single-file approach, bindings to all major languages, and availability on systems of all sizes, it is relatively easy to integrate a SQLite database in your undertakings. And if you tend to develop directly in your production environment, you may be interested to hear that the folks at [aergo] made this a lot more flexible (and interesting) by adding Git-style branching to the SQLite engine.

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Amazon Announces Availability of Serverless Aurora MySQL

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Amazon recently announced that a serverless version of their Aurora MySQL database product is now generally available.

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A Quick-Start Introduction to Database Security: An Operational Approach

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The recent SingHealth data breach incident exposed 1.5 million patients’ records. In the aftermath, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore published a set of security measures aimed at improving the protection of Personally Identifiable Informati… Continue reading A Quick-Start Introduction to Database Security: An Operational Approach→

Google Announces Firestore Security Rules Simulator

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Google recently introduced the Firestore Security Rules Simulator – a new tool that developers and administrators can use to write and test security rules for Google’s Cloud Firestore database in a quick and efficient manner.

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