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Friday, 06. December 2024

From caching to real-time analytics: Essential use cases for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

Valkey is an open-source, distributed, in-memory key-value data store that offers high-performance data retrieval and storage capabilities, making it an ideal choice for scalable, low-latency modern application development. Originating as a fork of Redis OSS following recent licensing changes, Valkey maintains full compatibility with its predecessor while providing high performance alternative for [...]

Thursday, 05. December 2024

MapLibre: How a Fork Became a Thriving Open Source Project (from The New Stack)

Every time a company pulls a previously open source project back behind a more restrictive licensing, a fork (and a

The post MapLibre: How a Fork Became a Thriving Open Source Project appeared first on The New Stack.

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Clustercontrol adds Percona Server Pro, and support for MySQL v8.4, Elasticsearch v8.15, Valkey v8.0 in latest release (from Severalnines' Blog)

Clustercontrol (CC) v2.3.0 is now live, featuring new enterprise binaries support for Percona Server Pro clusters and support for MySQL v8.4, Elasticsearch v8.15, and Valkey v8.0. Let’s dive into these key updates and discover what’s new! New enterprise binaries with compatibility for Percona Server Pro We have upgraded our enterprise binaries with Percona Server Pro […]

The post Cl [...]

Monday, 02. December 2024

Why Now Is the Time to Migrate From Redis to Valkey (from The New Stack)

Redis’s decision earlier this year to shift the world’s most popular NoSQL database away from the open source licensing that

The post Why Now Is the Time to Migrate From Redis to Valkey appeared first on The New Stack.

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Sunday, 01. December 2024

Announcing the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region (from AWS What's New)

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region, a fully managed, active-active, multi-Region database that lets you build multi-Region applications with up to 99.999% availability and microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latencies. MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible database service providing multi-AZ durability, microsecon [...]

Wednesday, 27. November 2024

Valkey GLIDE 1.2 adds new features from Valkey 8.0, including AZ awareness (from AWS What's New)

AWS adds support for Availability Zone (AZ) awareness in the open-source Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE) client library. Valkey GLIDE is a reliable, high-performance, and highly available client, and it’s pre-configured with best practices from over a decade of operating Amazon ElastiCache. Valkey GLIDE is compatible with versions 7.2 and 8.0 of Valkey, as well [...]

Tuesday, 26. November 2024

GenAI Won’t Replace Open Source, Says AWS Exec (from The New Stack)

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest questions people have about generative AI (GenAI) is what it means for humans.

The post GenAI Won’t Replace Open Source, Says AWS Exec appeared first on The New Stack.

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Friday, 22. November 2024

ClickHouse® is now GA on the NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform (from Instaclustr)

NetApp® is excited to announce the general availability of its latest offering on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform, Instaclustr for ClickHouse® – a new offering designed to provide businesses with a powerful, scalable, and reliable solution for real-time data analytics.  ClickHouse is an open source, column-oriented database management system renowned for its lightning-fast query processi [...]

Thursday, 21. November 2024

Amazon ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency (from AWS Database Blog)

Today, we are adding support for Valkey 8.0 on Amazon ElastiCache. ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling for ElastiCache Serverless and memory optimizations for node-based clusters. In this post, we discuss these improvements and how you can benefit from them. [...]

Amazon ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency (from AWS What's New)

Today, Amazon ElastiCache introduces support for Valkey 8.0, the latest Valkey major version. This release brings faster scaling for ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey and improved memory efficiency on node-based ElastiCache, compared to previous versions of ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS. Valkey is an open-source, high-performance key-value datastore stewarded by the Linux Foundation and i [...]


Pushing the limits of Valkey on a Raspberry Pi (from Valkey Blog)

While doing extensive performance testing on a Raspberry Pi is silly, it's made me realize the complexity of performance testing. For example, in some of the tests below I ended up managing to use all of the resources of the Raspberry Pi and achieved terrible performance. Every application has different performance characteristics so we'll walk through what factors to consider when it comes to d [...]

Tuesday, 12. November 2024

Use Amazon ElastiCache as a cache for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we show you how to use Amazon ElastiCache as a write-through cache for an application that uses an Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) table to store data about book awards. We use a Cassandra Python client driver to access Amazon Keyspaces programmatically and a Redis client to connect to the ElastiCache cluster. [...]

Thursday, 07. November 2024

Valkey: What’s New and What’s Next? (from The New Stack)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Valkey, the open source fork of created this past March, released its Version 8.0 into general availability in

The post Valkey: What’s New and What’s Next? appeared first on The New Stack.

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Wednesday, 06. November 2024

Valkey® now available on the NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform (from Instaclustr)

Valkey® – the next-generation in-memory database solution that steps in as the leading successor to Redis – is now available on the NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform.   Born earlier this year after Redis™ transitioned to a closed source model, the Valkey project addresses the need for a robust, open source alternative that upholds the ethos...

The post Valkey® now available on the NetA [...]


Optimize Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL auto scaling performance with automated cache pre-warming (from AWS Database Blog)

When clients start running queries on new Amazon Aurora replicas, they will notice a longer runtime for the first few times that queries are run; this is due to the cold cache of the replica. As the database runs more queries, the cache gets populated and the clients notice faster runtimes. In this post, we focus on how to address the cold cache so clients that are connecting through a load-balance [...]

Meet Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 (from Ubuntu blog)

We are ready to connect with the pioneers of open-source innovation! Canonical, the force behind Ubuntu, is returning as a gold sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.  This premier event, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, brings together the brightest minds in open source and cloud-native technologies. From November 13-15, 2024, we’ll […]

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Tuesday, 05. November 2024

Valkey/Redis Key-Specific Dump, Restore, and Migration (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Managing keys inside Valkey/Redis is crucial, especially when we need to test in a different environment or restore a partial/specific key-value dataset for a migration or production movement event. Although we can use a full RDB snapshot + AOF to get the full data set, that is not always feasible if we focus on a […] [...]

Tuesday, 29. October 2024

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time (from AWS What's New)

ElastiCache for Valkey self-designed (node-based) clusters now support server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your ElastiCache for Valkey cluster.

Monitoring response time is critical to improving end user experience by tracking applicat [...]


Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey adds new CloudWatch metrics to monitor server-side response time (from AWS What's New)

Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey now supports server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your MemoryDB cluster.

Monitoring latency is critical to improving end user experience by tracking application trends and adjusting cluster configurations, as [...]


Alternatives to Cloud DBaaS: What to Look For (from The New Stack)

Building a flexible cloud strategy means making decisions that align with operational efficiency, cost management and scalability. Public cloud platforms

The post Alternatives to Cloud DBaaS: What to Look For appeared first on The New Stack.

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Migrate from Redis to Valkey Without Downtime (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Migrating from Redis to Valkey can significantly reduce costs associated with private licensing for your application. However, the biggest concern in any migration is transitioning without disrupting service or causing downtime. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through a step-by-step approach to smoothly migrate from Redis to Valkey without interrupting your application’s operations, [...]

Thursday, 24. October 2024

Redis Users Want a Change (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Originally published on The New Stack. Open source Valkey is emerging as a top contender for the 75% of companies concerned about Redis’ licensing change, finds Percona research. The key-value store landscape is experiencing a shake-up, as Redis’ recent licensing changes have driven users to search for alternatives. Our latest Percona survey looks deeper into […] [...]

Wednesday, 23. October 2024

From Flashpoint to Foundation: OpenSearch’s Path Clears (from The New Stack)

The recent move by AWS to entrust the OpenSearch open source search and observability suite to the Linux Foundation, under

The post From Flashpoint to Foundation: OpenSearch’s Path Clears appeared first on The New Stack.

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Saturday, 19. October 2024

Migrating Elasticache from Redis to Valkey (from Fabricio Pedroso Jorge)

♦1 — Introduction

Valkey is a fork from Redis just before it transitioned from the open-source licensing to the Redis license.

It is a data structure server (or you can call a database as well) that serves key/value workloads, similar to Redis, supporting a wide range of native structures and additional features, such as extensible plugins for adding new data structures and access patterns, [...]


Google Cloud Adds Scalable Vector Search to Memorystore for Valkey & Redis Cluster (from InfoQ)

Google Cloud has introduced scalable vector-search capabilities to its Memorystore for Valkey and Redis Cluster. This update allows developers to perform vector searches at ultra-low latencies over billions of vectors.

By Mohit Palriwal [...]

Friday, 18. October 2024

MemoryDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions (from AWS What's New)

Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon MemoryDB in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey and Redis OSS-compatible database for in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. Customers in GovCloud regions can now use MemoryDB as a primary database for use cases that require ultra-fast performance and durable storage, such as payment card analytics, mes [...]

Thursday, 10. October 2024

AWS Adds Support, Drops Prices, for Redis-Forked Valkey (from The New Stack)

Cloud giant has expanded support for Valkey, the -backed open source fork of the previously-open source . In March, Redis

The post AWS Adds Support, Drops Prices, for Redis-Forked Valkey appeared first on The New Stack.

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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole (from Ubuntu blog)

The latest release of Ubuntu delivers a cutting edge kernel and enhanced desktop security. 10 October 2024 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download. Ubuntu 24.10 delivers the latest kernel, toolchains and GNOME 47 desktop environment alongside significant improvements to software security. “Orac [...]


AWS’s Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut (from Last Week in AWS)

In a move that's equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts.

The post AWS’s Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut appeared first on Last Week in AWS.

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Valkey is now included in Ubuntu (from Ubuntu blog)

This inclusion in Ubuntu 24.10 and 24.04 LTS marks a significant step forward – enabling simpler availability and continuous supportability for Valkey, the open source, in-memory data store, in the Ubuntu ecosystem.

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Wednesday, 09. October 2024

Moving from Redis to Valkey (from Melroy's Blog)

This guide is focus on moving from Redis to Valkey on my Ubuntu Server 24.04. There is no official documentation on how to setup Valkey via the binary, so this guide will help you to get started with Valkey. Which in my case will replace my Redis servers.

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Tuesday, 08. October 2024

Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS What's New)

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey with Serverless priced 33% lower and node-based priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a drop in replacement of [...]


Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey (from AWS What's New)

Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey, which is priced 30% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you are not charged for data written up to 10 TB/month. Any data written over 10TB/month is billed at $0.04/GB, which is 80% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a d [...]


Get started with Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey version 7.2, with 30% lower instance hour pricing as compared to Amazon MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, there is no charge for data written up to 10 TB per month, and then billed at $0.04/GB for any data written over 10 TB. Valkey is an […] [...]

Get started with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey version 7.2 with Serverless priced 33% lower and self-designed (node-based) clusters priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore […] [...]

Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB announce support for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

As of October 8th 2024, we’ve added support for Valkey 7.2 on Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB, our fully managed in-memory services. In this post, we discuss the AWS contributions to Valkey, AWS commitment to making Valkey more accessible for ElastiCache and MemoryDB customers, and how customers can start using it in their applications. [...]

Saturday, 05. October 2024

Valkey 8.0 Now Generally Available with Improved Memory Efficiency (from InfoQ)

The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.

By Renato Losio [...]

Thursday, 03. October 2024

Google Equips PostgreSQL, Valkey Services for Vector Processing (from The New Stack)

Yesterday, in San Francisco, OpenAI held a DevDay to introduce its new generative AI technologies to developers. And this week,

The post Google Equips PostgreSQL, Valkey Services for Vector Processing appeared first on The New Stack.

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Wednesday, 02. October 2024

Redis Users Want a Change (from The New Stack)

The key-value store landscape is experiencing a shake-up, as ’ recent licensing changes have driven users to search for alternatives.

The post Redis Users Want a Change appeared first on The New Stack.

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8.0.1 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0.1 Release

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7.2.7 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 7.2.7 Release

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Tuesday, 01. October 2024

New – Size flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache reserved nodes (from AWS Database Blog)

Amazon ElastiCache, a fully managed, Redis OSS- and Memcached-compatible caching service, now supports size flexibility for all its reserved node offerings, enabling your reserved node discount to apply across differently sized node types beyond the size specified in your reservation. With flexible reserved nodes, you no longer need to commit to a specific node size when purchasing a reservation, r [...]

Saturday, 28. September 2024

Does Your Open Source Project Need Foundation Oversight?  (from The New Stack)

If you’re developing an open source, cloud native project it might seem a no-brainer to one day move it under

The post Does Your Open Source Project Need Foundation Oversight?  appeared first on The New Stack.

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Thursday, 26. September 2024

Why Open Source Forking Is a Hot-Button Issue (from The New Stack)

Valkey, OpenTofu, and OpenBao are names of open source software project forks hosted by the Linux Foundation. The forks were

The post Why Open Source Forking Is a Hot-Button Issue appeared first on The New Stack.

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Clustercontrol adds Valkey in latest release (from Severalnines' Blog)

Clustercontrol (CC) v2.2.0 is now live, offering a new Redis alternative in response to recent licensing changes, along with improved support for MariaDB 11.4 and Ubuntu 24.04. Let’s explore the key updates and see what’s new in Clustercontrol v2.2.0! Redis shifts to source-available licensing Beginning with v7.4, Redis will adopt a dual-licensing model under the […]

The post Cluste [...]

Tuesday, 24. September 2024

Valkey GLIDE v1.1, a client for Valkey and Redis OSS, now supports Node.js (from AWS What's New)

Today, we are announcing Node.js support for Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE). GLIDE is an open source client library for Valkey, an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching and message queues. With this launch, GLIDE supports Java, Python, and Node.js. GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it su [...]

Friday, 20. September 2024

Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move (from The Register)

Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms

Around 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made a shift away from permissive open source licensing.…

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Europe’s Tech Future Hinges on Open Source AI (from The New Stack)

VIENNA — AI and open source are critical for Europe’s tech future, extending to the economic bloc’s digital sovereignty and

The post Europe’s Tech Future Hinges on Open Source AI appeared first on The New Stack.

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Top 10 reasons why enterprises choose NetApp® Instaclustr (from Instaclustr)

Enterprises of all shapes, sizes, and industries are increasingly turning to managed open source platforms to simplify their operations, enhance their capabilities, and build reliable applications at scale.   According to an IDC analyst brief, with the data growth of AI and cloud-native applications, teams must simplify their underlying data infrastructure to support business objectives.  ...

Thursday, 19. September 2024

Valkey 8 sets a new bar for open-source in-memory NoSQL data storage (from Open Source Watch)

Redis has reason to be worried as Valkey 8 moves beyond its parent program. [...]

Wednesday, 18. September 2024

Valkey 8.0 rides high at Open Source Summit in Vienna (from The Stack)

Linux Foundation serves up new version of Redis fork [...]

Tuesday, 17. September 2024

Announcing Fedora Linux 41 Beta (from Fedora Magazine)

Today, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 41 Beta. While we’ll have more to share with the general availability of Fedora Linux 41 in about a month, there is plenty in the beta to get excited about now. Get the the prerelease of any of our editions from our […] [...]

Monday, 16. September 2024

With Valkey 8.0, the Linux Foundation thumbs its nose at Redis (from Techzine)

Valkey 8.0 promises across-the-board improvements in performance, reliability, and observability over previous versions and, thus, Redis as well. At the Open Source Summit in Vienna, the Linux Foundation announced the latest version of this alternative to key-value store Redis, which was forked barely six months ago. Valkey is an open-source, in-memory NoSQL data store and […] [...]

Announcing Valkey 8.0 (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)


 

Valkey’s inaugural release delivers enhanced performance, reliability, and observability to all users.

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Announcing Valkey 8.0 (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)


 

Valkey’s inaugural release delivers enhanced performance, reliability, and observability to all users.

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Generally Available: Valkey 8.0.0 (from Valkey Blog)

The first ever release of Valkey, 7.2.5, became generally available more than 5 months ago. While the initial release was a milestone, it focused on compatibility and license continuity; bringing no new features to the table. Today marks a different milestone for the Valkey project: the first major release. Valkey 8.0.0 continues the traditions of the seven major versions of Redis that precede i [...]


Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS (from Phoronix)

Valkey 8.0 was released today as this leading fork of the Redis open-source code that was started by the Linux Foundation early in the year and backed by organizations from Amazon/AWS to Google Cloud, Oracle, and others. With the Valkey 8.0 release a big focus has been on increasing performance and striving to being capable of delivering one million requests per second... [...]

8.0.0 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0.0 Release

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Friday, 13. September 2024

Unlock 1 Million RPS: Experience Triple the Speed with Valkey - part 2 (from Valkey Blog)

In the first part of this blog, we described how we offloaded almost all I/O operations to I/O threads, thereby freeing more CPU cycles in the main thread to execute commands. When we profiled the execution of the main thread, we found that a considerable amount of time was spent waiting for external memory. This was not entirely surprising, as when accessing random keys, the probability of find [...]

Thursday, 12. September 2024

Flight to Valkey appears to be response to removal of Redis’ open source license (from Techzine)

The end of an era for Redis and perhaps the beginning of a new one for Valkey. That may well be the result of Redis Labs’ controversial decision earlier this year to give its wildly popular Redis key-value store a more limited ‘source available’ license. According to in-house research by database specialist Percona, this prompts […] [...]

Redis 8.0 Community Edition M1 Released With New Data Structures (from Phoronix)

For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing... [...]

Tuesday, 10. September 2024

How to Explain the Security Advantages of Open Source (from The New Stack)

In a recent conversation with my family, we all shared that our personal information had been stolen through one cybersecurity

The post How to Explain the Security Advantages of Open Source appeared first on The New Stack.

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Monday, 09. September 2024

Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy (from The New Stack)

The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling landscape is in turmoil. HashiCorp’s decision to move from open source to a “source-available”

The post Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy appeared first on The New Stack.

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Wednesday, 04. September 2024

Storing more with less: Memory Efficiency in Valkey 8 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0 GA is around the corner and one of the themes is increasing overall memory efficiency. Memory overhead reduction has the obvious effect of better resource utilization, but also impacts performance. By minimizing unnecessary memory consumption, you can store more data with the same hardware resources and improve overall system responsiveness. This post is going to give an overview into [...]

Tuesday, 03. September 2024

Instaclustr Product Update: September 2024 (from Instaclustr)

Here is a roundup of the latest features and updates we’ve developed on the Instaclustr Platform over the last few months! Our team has been hard at work listening to your feedback and making continuous improvements.  If you have specific feature requests or improvement ideas you’d love to see, please get in touch with us. ...

The post Instaclustr Product Update: September 2024 appe [...]

Monday, 26. August 2024

Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork (from The New Stack)

HONG KONG —At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024 this week, it was made crystal clear that

The post Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork appeared first on The New Stack.

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Real-time AI Agent communication with Valkey™ and an LLM (from Aiven Dev Center)

Integrating Valkey® pub/sub with Amazon Bedrock for AI agent communication [...]

Friday, 16. August 2024

Cockroach Rescinds Open Core for a Free Enterprise Version (from The New Stack)

is eliminating the free-to-use “open core” stripped-down version of its distributed database, offering in its place the more fully-featured enterprise

The post Cockroach Rescinds Open Core for a Free Enterprise Version appeared first on The New Stack.

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Monday, 12. August 2024

Database as a Service: The Hidden Cost of Convenience (from The New Stack)

It’s a refrain we’ve been hearing regularly for nearly a decade now. First, it was the age of Big Data

The post Database as a Service: The Hidden Cost of Convenience appeared first on The New Stack.

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