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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.