SQL Server takes a turn towards Kubernetes and big data

Source:- www.techrepublic.com SQL Server 2019 big data clusters bring relational and unstructured data together in a world where you don’t have to curate data before using it. Originally, the SQL database service on Azure and the SQL Server product were based on different code. Some years back, Microsoft unified the code base so that applications would be compatible between them. What the SQL team realised was that rather than just wanting to move their database applications to the cloud, customers

PostgreSQL on Amazon Aurora Serverless goes live. Check the price tag before diving in, though

Source:- theregister.co.uk Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of PostgreSQL on its Aurora Serverless platform. Aurora is part of AWS’s managed relational database service. An Aurora database can span multiple regions for low latency reads. The compute aspect of Aurora is separate from its storage, which is always spread over multiple availability zones (AZs) for resilience. AWS is careful to describe its two Aurora database types as MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible, meaning that the implementation is different from the standard