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SingleStore Launches MongoDB API to Power AI and Real-Time Analytics on JSON

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Thursday, May 18, 2023
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The new API is MongoDB wire protocol compatible, and enables developers to power interactive applications with analytics with SingleStoreDB using the same MongoDB commands.

Key Points: 
  • The new API is MongoDB wire protocol compatible, and enables developers to power interactive applications with analytics with SingleStoreDB using the same MongoDB commands.
  • SingleStoreDB can effectively augment MongoDB as the analytical engine to power blazing fast analytics on collections of JSON data.
  • With SingleStore Kai, you can perform complex analytics on JSON data for MongoDB applications faster and more efficiently.
  • The SingleStore MongoDB API proxy translates the MongoDB queries into SQL statements that are executed by SingleStoreDB to drive lightning-fast analytics for your applications.

WEKA Rolls Out New Features and Enhancements in 4.2 Software Release

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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CAMPBELL, Calif., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WekaIO (WEKA), the data platform provider for performance-intensive workloads, unveiled version 4.2 of the WEKA® Data Platform today. The new release brings a variety of enhanced features and new capabilities to the company designed to increase the affordability and performance of next-generation technologies for WEKA's customers. These include advanced data reduction and a new container storage interface (CSI) plug-in for stateful containerized workloads that can help customers dramatically lower their storage and operational costs. WEKA 4.2 also offers significant performance improvements in the cloud, providing the limitless scale and application data protection needed to support thousands of containers for cloud-native artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Key Points: 
  • The new release brings a variety of enhanced features and new capabilities to the company designed to increase the affordability and performance of next-generation technologies for WEKA's customers.
  • The release builds on the fourth generation of WEKA's software-defined, hybrid cloud data platform.
  • "The latest enhancements in WEKA 4.2 are designed to give our customers an easy button for managing AI and other next-generation workloads.
  • The new features and capabilities in the WEKA 4.2 platform release will be generally available later this month.

WEKA Rolls Out New Features and Enhancements in 4.2 Software Release

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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CAMPBELL, Calif., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WekaIO (WEKA), the data platform provider for performance-intensive workloads, unveiled version 4.2 of the WEKA® Data Platform today. The new release brings a variety of enhanced features and new capabilities to the company designed to increase the affordability and performance of next-generation technologies for WEKA's customers. These include advanced data reduction and a new container storage interface (CSI) plug-in for stateful containerized workloads that can help customers dramatically lower their storage and operational costs. WEKA 4.2 also offers significant performance improvements in the cloud, providing the limitless scale and application data protection needed to support thousands of containers for cloud-native artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Key Points: 
  • The new release brings a variety of enhanced features and new capabilities to the company designed to increase the affordability and performance of next-generation technologies for WEKA's customers.
  • The release builds on the fourth generation of WEKA's software-defined, hybrid cloud data platform.
  • "The latest enhancements in WEKA 4.2 are designed to give our customers an easy button for managing AI and other next-generation workloads.
  • The new features and capabilities in the WEKA 4.2 platform release will be generally available later this month.

Micron Scales Storage to New Heights With Launch of Two Data Center Drives

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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The Micron 6500 ION is a high-capacity SSD that offers a superior value over competitive QLC-based drives by providing best-in-class performance and enabling a more environmentally sustainable data center.

Key Points: 
  • The Micron 6500 ION is a high-capacity SSD that offers a superior value over competitive QLC-based drives by providing best-in-class performance and enabling a more environmentally sustainable data center.
  • When paired with Micron 6500 ION drives or other SSDs, the Micron XTR SSD delivers extreme endurance that enhances system performance.
  • When paired with the Micron 6500 ION, the Micron XTR optimizes storage workloads with minimal investment when compared to storage class memory-based solutions.
  • This new SSD combination enables data center operators to massively scale storage, control costs and improve data center sustainability by using less power than previous technologies.

Couchbase Survey Shows 9 Out of 10 Developers Are at or Over Capacity; Automation and SQL-based Query Capabilities Top Their Productivity Wish Lists

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced findings from new industry research commissioned by Couchbase examining the trends, challenges and opportunities developers who build with databases are experiencing in their roles. The April 2023 survey of 533 U.S.-based software developers – composed of professionals ranging from individual contributors to C-levels – revealed that 9 out of 10 developers are at or over their work capacity and calling for automation and SQL-based database query tools to help them boost productivity. Additionally, a majority of respondents (86%) with roles at manager-level and above indicated they are currently facing challenges hiring developers with the right skill set.

Key Points: 
  • Additionally, a majority of respondents (86%) with roles at manager-level and above indicated they are currently facing challenges hiring developers with the right skill set.
  • With so many developers at or over their work capacity, only 5.1% responded they have the ability to take on more projects.
  • As developers' overall workload increases, more developers are also taking on tasks outside of their normal purview.
  • Learn more about Couchbase Academy, including role-specific training courses for developers, architects and database administrators, as well as certification here .

DataStax Astra DB Recognized as Top Rated TrustRadius Award Winner

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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DataStax , the real-time AI company, announced that Astra DB has been honored as a top-rated TrustRadius award winner in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), Open-Source, NoSQL, and Non-Relational categories.

Key Points: 
  • DataStax , the real-time AI company, announced that Astra DB has been honored as a top-rated TrustRadius award winner in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), Open-Source, NoSQL, and Non-Relational categories.
  • TrustRadius is a review platform that helps businesses make informed buying decisions by providing unbiased insights from real users.
  • Based entirely on user reviews, the awards reinforce DataStax’s commitment to delivering the best database for building and running real-time applications at any scale, on any cloud.
  • “For usage that can quickly go up, and perhaps even down again, Astra DB is very well suited,” said Henning Kosmack, CEO, MegaZebra.

ScyllaDB Adds Jon Bakke of MariaDB to its Leadership Team, Supporting Rapid DBaaS Growth

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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Bakke will assist with scaling the company in the face of rapidly increasing demand for its NoSQL database.

Key Points: 
  • Bakke will assist with scaling the company in the face of rapidly increasing demand for its NoSQL database.
  • Bakke is an accomplished database industry executive with 20+ years experience in the space.
  • Most recently, he served as CRO at MariaDB, the company behind one of the most popular databases in the world.
  • “We are thrilled to welcome Jon to the team,” said Dor Laor, ScyllaDB CEO and co-founder.

Quantic Selects Couchbase Capella to Scale Point of Sale Platform, Delivering an Improved Developer Experience and Offline Capabilities

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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With Capella powering its modern applications, Quantic is prepared for future business growth to deliver seamless, reliable experiences to customers.

Key Points: 
  • With Capella powering its modern applications, Quantic is prepared for future business growth to deliver seamless, reliable experiences to customers.
  • It couldn't scale at the enterprise level and managing all of our clusters placed a huge strain on developers," said Vigyan Kaushik, co-founder and CEO of Quantic.
  • "Building a database in-house to support our needs was out of the question because of the required costs, time and talent.
  • After a competitive evaluation, Quantic selected Capella on AWS for increased performance, superior scalability, developer familiarity and ease of use.

Lightbits Bolsters Cloud-First Strategy by Joining the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

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Monday, March 27, 2023
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Microsoft Azure is a secure and compliant cloud platform trusted by organizations small and large, including 95% of Fortune 500 companies.

Key Points: 
  • Microsoft Azure is a secure and compliant cloud platform trusted by organizations small and large, including 95% of Fortune 500 companies.
  • As a member of the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, Lightbits will optimize its cloud solution so that organizations running on or planning to migrate their IO-intensive workloads to Azure can do so with the confidence that it’s on a scalable, efficient, and highly performant platform.
  • The Lightbits Cloud Data Platform on Azure delivers agility, flexibility, high performance, and predictable and lower costs enabling migration of transactional and other latency-sensitive workloads to the cloud.
  • Neither option was ideal since it lacked data protection at the storage level and significantly increased overall costs,” said Kam Eshghi , Co-Founder and CSO at Lightbits.

Fermyon Releases Spin 1.0, the Easiest Way for Developers to Build WebAssembly Serverless Functions

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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LONGMONT, Colo., March 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fermyon Technologies, the serverless WebAssembly company, today introduced Spin 1.0, a major new release of the world’s first serverless functions framework based on WebAssembly.

Key Points: 
  • LONGMONT, Colo., March 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fermyon Technologies, the serverless WebAssembly company, today introduced Spin 1.0, a major new release of the world’s first serverless functions framework based on WebAssembly.
  • A developer can get started with Spin, going from blinking cursor to deployed serverless function in 66 seconds.
  • Developer advocates on Fermyon Spin:
    Kelsey Hightower said: “I'm getting some hands on time with WebAssembly by playing around with Fermyon and their Spin framework.
  • Built with a serverless API (like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions), Spin applications are not only quick to deploy but are easy to build as well.