Free/Libre Databases News: MongoDB, NoSQL, and MySQL Branches/Forks
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-13 09:38:44 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-13 09:38:44 UTC
MongoDB
On Friday I tagged the newest release of my primary responsibility at MongoDB, the new C driver. The driver is split up into two libraries, libbson[1] and mongo-c-driver. It feels like a natural split, since there seems to be a lot of interest in BSON outside of MongoDB.
OPEN SOURCE DATABASE MongoDB reached version 2.6 on Tuesday after a six month developer test.
MongoDB has officially released the latest version of its namesake NoSQL database, which introduces a number of changes designed to make it simpler to manage and operate, as well as making it easier to add new features in future.
NoSQL
AppDynamics' Spring 2014 Release includes new support for NoSQL Big Data stores including MongoDB and Hadoop, Couchbase and Cassandra through its extensible API framework.
Database giant Oracle is attempting to create a NoSQL standards body, The Register has learned.
The puzzling move was disclosed to El Reg on Friday by multiple well-placed sources at multiple database companies, who were each familiar with the matter.
NoSQL database platform company MarkLogic is having a successful period of growth and says that MarkLogic release 7 is marked out for its elasticity, tiered storage and semantics capabilities.
MySQL
The products are based on MariaDB 10, which became generally available on Monday
Four of the titans of hyperscale Web applications – Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter – have teamed up to create a set of common extensions aimed specifically at running the open source MySQL relational database at scale.
There is something of a war of words (and code) going on between the NoSQL and SQL database camps.
The latest release of MariaDB Enterprise removes the need to choose between different database technologies, says SkySQL
For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system.
Such a sizeable performance bump could help organizations save money in server purchases, because it would require fewer servers to run large jobs. Or, it will allow them to run complex queries that might have taken too long to run on earlier versions of the database system, said Tomas Ulin, Oracle vice president of MySQL engineering.
On Monday, the company released the latest development version of the software, MySQL Development Milestone 5.7.4, along with a number of associated programs for managing the database. The last major version of MySQL, version 5.6, was released in February 2013.
London, United Kingdom – 31 March 2014 – The MariaDB Foundation, an independent body which promotes the popular open source database MariaDB, today announced the much-anticipated general availability of MariaDB 10, providing today’s generation of application developers with enhanced performance and functionality.
WebScaleSQL
The open-source WebScaleSQL branch of MySQL 5.6 was announced by Facebook on Thursday, and uses version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Engineers from Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook have contributed to the project, although the group is inviting other interested parties to join as well.
CitusDB. Oracle, PostgreSQL...
CitusDB, a database analytics startup that is hoping to take on big boys like Oracle, today announced the release of CSTORE, a columnar store extension for PostgreSQL. The open-source tool, which the company says is the first for PostgreSQL, is available for a free download starting today.
AMD has migrated terabytes of information from an Oracle Database installation to an Apache Hadoop stack, claiming Oracle's pricey software was suffering from scaling issues.
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Sandor Klein of EDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL.
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