databases

Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

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Databricks is in the process of closing a fresh round at a $100 billion valuation, sources confirmed to TechCrunch. The round was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch exclusively the new round is about $1 billion, and was wildly oversubscribed. Databricks, best known for its data analytics […]

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AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability

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At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region availability), strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and, the company says, “4x faster reads and writes compared to other popular distributed SQL databases.” AWS argues that Aurora DSQL will offer

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