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ClickHouse acquired security data platform RunReveal, folding in-house the expertise behind a product already built on its own database.

Redis 8.10 reaches general availability with a memory-saving compact hash encoding, a bulk-insert HIMPORT command, and a node-side BACKUP command built on multi-part AOF.

AWS added native vector search to DynamoDB on August 5, letting developers store embeddings alongside operational data and query up to 4,096 dimensions without a separate vector database.

AWS released ExtendDB v0.1 on May 20, an Apache 2.0 adapter implementing the DynamoDB wire protocol on pluggable backends including PostgreSQL and Apache Cassandra, targeting local dev, CI/CD, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Google announced a downloadable edition of Cloud Spanner that runs on-premises, on rival clouds, or on a laptop, dismantling a dependency on proprietary infrastructure that its engineers once thought impossible to remove.

ClickHouse 26.5 arrives on May 21 with 38 new features, 51 performance optimizations, a 27x Merge table speedup, Iceberg V3 geometry support, and new SQL compatibility aliases for PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and BigQuery.

Amazon Aurora Serverless platform version 4 scales 45% faster and delivers up to 30% better throughput at no extra cost, targeting agentic AI workloads.

SQLite 3.52.0, expected to release around March 11, 2026, will add ALTER TABLE support for NOT NULL and CHECK constraints, a new Query Result Formatter for the CLI, two new JSON array functions, and query planner improvements.

PostgreSQL 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, and 14.22 fix regressions introduced when patching five CVEs, including a broken substring() function on non-ASCII text and standby servers halting mid-replication.