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SurrealDB, a startup developing a database architecture of the same name, has closed a new round of funding as it readies a managed service.
MongoDB investigating security incident that exposed data about customer accounts
Database management giant MongoDB says it’s investigating a security incident that has resulted in the exposure of some information about customers. The New York-based MongoDB helps more than 46,000 companies,…
Investors have an appetite for databases, it seems. Today, ScyllaDB, a startup developing database tech for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, announced that it raised $43 million in a funding round led…
Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB
Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner,…
Database startup MotherDuck lands $52.5M to grow its DuckDB-based platform
A few weeks ago, it was reported that MotherDuck, the company commercializing the lightweight database platform DuckDB, was in talks to raise new capital from VC firm Felicis. Those talks…
Oracle brings its database infrastructure to Microsoft Azure
Days after Oracle missed Q1 2023 revenue expectations and gave a downbeat rest-of-year outlook, sending its share price to suffer the worst one-day performance in 21 years, the cloud provider…
Rockset lands $44M to power real-time search and analytics apps
Rockset, a company building tools to drive real-time search and data analytics, today announced that it raised $44 million — $37 million in equity and $7 million in debt —…
Google’s Cloud Spanner Data Boost is now generally available
At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to…
Neon, a startup that’s building a serverless open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, today announced that it raised around $46 million in a new funding round, about $30 million…
Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M
Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and…
InfluxData lands $51M to grow its time series database offerings
In late 2013, Errplane, a Y Combinator-backed startup, began developing an open source project called InfluxDB for database performance monitoring and alerting. After raising several million in financing from VC…
Airtable’s whopping $11 billion valuation attained in late 2021 has lured a raft of ambitious entrepreneurs into the low-code database space. They covet even just a small slice of the…
There’s plenty of vendors in the managed database services market — and plenty that are well financed. Take a look at SingleStore, which last October raised $30 million to bring…
Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled release…
Amazon accidentally exposed an internal server packed with Prime Video viewing habits
It feels like every other day another tech startup is caught red-faced spilling reams of data across the internet because of a lapse in security. But even for technology giants…
SingleStore raises $30M more to bring its database tech to new customers
Months after bagging $116 million in an extension of its Series F round, database vendor SingleStore this week announced that it raised an additional $30 million from investors, including Prosperity7,…
Microsoft’s M12 led $20M investment in web3 platform Space and Time
Space and Time, a decentralized data platform, has raised $20 million in strategic funding to help businesses grow through smart contract technology. “Our mission is to make smart contracts smarter…
NebulaGraph reaps from China’s growing appetite for graph databases
Graph databases, which store information in nodes and relationships instead of tables like Excel sheets, have grown in popularity amid an explosion of data across industries. While TigerGraph and Neo4j…
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A huge Chinese database of faces and vehicle license plates spilled online
A massive Chinese database storing millions of faces and vehicle license plates was left exposed on the internet for months before it quietly disappeared in August. While its contents might seem unremarkable for China, where facial recognition is routine and state surveillance is ubiquitous, the sheer size of the exposed…
Data analytics startup StarTree secures cash to expand its Apache Pinot-powered platform
StarTree, a company building what it describes as an “analytics-as-a-service” platform, today announced that it raised $47 million in a Series B round led by GGV Capital with participation from…
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JusTalk spilled millions of user messages and locations for months
Popular messaging app JusTalk left a huge database of unencrypted private messages publicly exposed to the internet without a password for months. The messaging app has around 20 million international users, while Google Play lists JusTalk Kids, billed as a child-friendly version of its messaging app, has racked up over…
Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases
Neon, a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from…
Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages
Popular video calling and messaging app JusTalk claims to be both secure and encrypted. But a security lapse has proven the app to be neither secure nor encrypted after a…
Crunchbase looks to grow its database of startups with $50M in new cash
In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue. “Account-based” intelligence — i.e., research into potential customers…
SingleStore raises additional cash to grow its database business
SingleStore, a provider of databases for cloud and on-premises apps and analytical systems, today announced that it raised $116 million in an extension of its Series F. The new cash…
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A huge data leak of 1 billion records exposes China’s vast surveillance state
A massive store of data containing information on about one billion Chinese residents could be one of the biggest breaches of personal information in history. Portions of the leaked data appeared last week on a known cybercrime forum from someone selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $200,000, and…
MongoDB puts a spotlight on its developer data platform
At its annual MongoDB World conference, MongoDB today announced a series of updates to its eponymous database, including the addition of querying encrypted data without having to decrypt it first,…
NJ talent firm exposed thousands of resumes, detailing immigration statuses and security clearances
A New Jersey talent acquisition firm exposed the resumes and personal information of at least 30,000 prospective workers by leaving a database on the internet without a password. The database…
PlanetScale expands its database service with built-in performance monitoring and more
PlanetScale, the highly scalable MySQL database service founded by the co-creators of the increasingly popular Vitess open source project, today announced a series of updates that push the platform beyond…
The name kind of gives it away, but Apollo GraphQL has long focused on helping developers use the GraphQL query language for APIs to integrate data from a variety of…
