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10gen has announced MongoDB v1.8 of the scalable data store; introducing journaling for fast recovery in case of crashes, support for covered and sparse indexes, incremental map/reduce, as well as an investment in performance and scale-out capabilities that has seen improvements to replication and sharding the newest release.

A new DB PowerStudio for DB2 has been released from Embarcadero; providing DB2 developers and DBAs the ability to gain greater functionality and efficiencies with the toolset. The new version combines several essential database tools and extends beyond the capabilities of IBM’s database utilities, those tools being Rapid SQL, DB Optimizer, DB Change Manager, DBArtisan, […]

SecureSphere 8.5 has extended the protection from insider threats by enhancing their SecureSphere Agent Technology for file and database activity throughout the IT infrastructure. The extension combines network monitoring and local monitoring with agents to provide support for platforms that include Windows file servers and mainframe databases. Windows File Server agents are a deployment option […]

PostgreSQL Conference East continues the success of the PostgreSQL Conference West; announcing a databases in the cloud round table with a question and answer forum with expert practictioners from Open Hosting, Heroku, Cirrus, 10gen, and others. The PostgreSQL Conference East will be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City between March 22 to […]

Get an introduction to Tungsten parallel replication; seeing how Tungsten Replicator 2.0 cures the MySQL master/slave impedance mismatch. In this webinar continuent will introduce the Tungsten Replicator architecture and demonstrate how to replicat using pipeline parallelism, multiple replication services, and shared parallel apply; covering many tricks from Tungsten masters and enabling attendees to walk away […]

AxiomCoders has released PDF Generator for building reports in PDF format directly from MySQL and SQL Server databases; helping many automation processes such as during the creation of invoices, price lists, worksheets, etc.

Couchbase announces Couchbase Server with availability for Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. A free Couchbase Server is available for download in both community and enterprise editions; recommending enterprise edition for those organizations that plan to take a product to production while the community edition is more for developers and hobbyists […]

Idera announces their SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.6 which provides deep disk I/O analytics for SQL Server, identifying and tracking which database files that are causing increased disk activity; enabling administrators the ability to see performance issues on a particular drive and rebalancing busy drive workloads when needed. Also included in this release is an expanded […]

Oracle has produced an update to MySQL; making MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition available that delivers increased manageability, higher performance, and lower TCO. MySQL 5.5 Enterprise Edition is a subscription offering that comes with monitoring, backup and design tools, and 24×7 support and addes to this release MySQL Enterprise Backup and MySQL Workbench as well as […]

IBM Netezza and Revolution Analytics announce partnership; integrating Revolution R Enterprise and IBM Netezza TwinFin Data Warehouse Appliance; allowing customers to run high performance and full-scale predictive analytics from within a daa warehouse platform while leveraging the power of the open source R statistics language. The agreement states that both companies will work together to […]

Oracle has extended its Application Development Framework, adding Oracle Application Development Framwork Mobile Client; enabling developers to extend their skills and quickly develop applications for mobile devices. The Mobile Client provides native mobile functionality with initial support for BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Mobile devices.

Karen Tegan Padir, EnterpriseDB vp of products, will present keynote at TheServerSide Java Symposium talking about how technologies like Java, Java EE, PostgreSQL, Linux and MySQL have gained worldwide developer adoption. Specifically, the keynote will, based on technology adoption trends of the past, take a look at how the elements of standards based on open […]