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Databricks Lakebase Reaches General Availability on Azure, Completing Multi-Cloud Rollout of Its Serverless PostgreSQL Database
Databricks has made Lakebase generally available on Azure across 14 regions, completing a multi-cloud rollout of its serverless PostgreSQL database built on technology from its Neon and Mooncake Labs acquisitions.
Iceberg Summit 2026 Draws All Major Cloud Vendors as V3 Adoption Accelerates Across the Data Lakehouse Ecosystem
The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.
Netflix Engineers Detail Graph Abstraction Layer Handling 650 TB of Graph Data at 10 Million Operations Per Second
A three-part Netflix Tech Blog series and subsequent InfoQ coverage reveal how the streaming company built a custom graph platform atop Apache Cassandra and EVCache, bypassing traditional graph databases to serve social graphs, service topology, and real-time distributed graphs at internet scale.
DuckDB 1.5.0 Ships VARIANT Type, Built-In Geometry, and Overhauled CLI in Largest Release Since 1.0
DuckDB 1.5.0 introduces a VARIANT type that speeds JSON queries up to 100x, promotes GEOMETRY into core, overhauls the CLI, and delivers broad performance gains across more than 6,500 commits from nearly 100 contributors.
MySQL 8.0 Reaches End of Life This Month as Majority of Installations Have Yet to Upgrade
Oracle ends security patches for MySQL 8.0 on April 30, leaving 58 percent of monitored instances on an unsupported version with no fix path for new vulnerabilities.
Databricks Lakebase Reaches General Availability on Azure as Serverless PostgreSQL Expands to 14 Regions
Databricks has made Lakebase, its serverless PostgreSQL database built on acquired Neon technology, generally available on Azure with autoscaling compute, high availability, and compliance certifications across 14 regions.
MariaDB Acquires GridGain to Build Sub-Millisecond Data Infrastructure for Agentic AI
MariaDB will merge its relational database with GridGain's in-memory computing platform to target latency-sensitive agentic AI workloads, marking the company's third acquisition in nine months under private equity ownership.
Amazon S3 Turns 20 Storing Over 500 Trillion Objects Across Hundreds of Exabytes as AWS Rewrites Core Components in Rust
Amazon S3 marks its 20th anniversary storing over 500 trillion objects across hundreds of exabytes, while AWS progressively rewrites core storage components in Rust for memory safety and performance.
Valkey Turns Two: How a Linux Foundation Fork Became the Open-Source Redis Successor
Eighteen months after Redis changed its license, Valkey 9.0 has reached one billion requests per second, 346 contributors, and 75 percent of surveyed Redis users eyeing migration.
SQLite 3.52.0 Closes a Decade-Long ALTER TABLE Gap and Ships a New Query Formatter
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 Ships Emergency Out-of-Cycle Release After Security Patches Break Core Text Functions and Standby Replication
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.
MySQL's Governance Crisis: An Open Letter, Oracle's Promises, and the Race Against PostgreSQL
A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.