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Month: November 2020
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Open source PostgreSQL on steroids: Swarm64 database acceleration software for performance improvement and analytics
Take the 4th most popular database in the world. Make it run 20 times faster, lower costs by 70%, use it for analytics, time series, and data warehousing workloads. This is what Swarm64 database acceleration software promises PostgreSQL is a big deal. The most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of,…
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A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding
Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a global database makes more sense, and Cockroach DB is making a play for a bigger piece of a growing pie CockroachDB is an open-source database that is resilient, supports automatic geo-scaling on-premise and in the cloud, and SQL. It has…
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A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding
Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a global database makes more sense, and Cockroach DB is making a play for a bigger piece of a growing pie CockroachDB is an open-source database that is resilient, supports automatic geo-scaling on-premise and in the cloud, and SQL. It has…
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Open source database ScyllaDB 4.0 promises Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB drop-in replacement
ScyllaDB has made a name for itself as a fast drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra. Now it ups the ante, offering Amazon DynamoDB compatibility and new features, promising superior performance, lower total cost of ownership and no vendor lock-in We first covered ScyllaDB on ZDNet back in 2017. Its story is one of deep tech,…
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Open source database ScyllaDB 4.0 promises Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB drop-in replacement
ScyllaDB has made a name for itself as a fast drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra. Now it ups the ante, offering Amazon DynamoDB compatibility and new features, promising superior performance, lower total cost of ownership and no vendor lock-in We first covered ScyllaDB on ZDNet back in 2017. Its story is one of deep tech,…
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Open source observability, meet data transformation: Grafana 7.0 promises to connect, unify, and visualize all your data
Grafana Labs sets the bar for open source observability with Grafana 7.0: more developer friendly, more data sources, data transformation, and growth in the cloud and on premise Grafana Labs, makers of popular open-source observability platform Grafana, announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0. This comes only a few months after Grafana Labs scored $24…
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GoodData and Visa: A common data-driven future?
From user, to partner and investor. That’s not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa. GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users. GoodData, one of the key players in business intelligence and analytics, today announced a partnership with Visa. This is an interesting development…
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AI chips in 2020: Nvidia and the challengers
Now that the dust from Nvidia’s unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let’s take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight Few people, Nvidia’s competitors included, would dispute the fact that Nvidia is calling the shots in the AI chip game today. The announcement…
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AI chips in 2020: Nvidia and the challengers
Now that the dust from Nvidia’s unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let’s take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight Few people, Nvidia’s competitors included, would dispute the fact that Nvidia is calling the shots in the AI chip game today. The announcement…
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Scientific fact-checking using AI language models: COVID-19 research and beyond
Fact or fiction? That’s not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and bias typically come into play. In the nascent domain of scientific fact checking, things are complicated. If you think fact-checking is hard, which it is, then what would you say about verifying scientific claims, on COVID-19 no less? Hint: it’s…