The market for backend services for web and mobile apps has long been dominated by a small group of familiar names, especially Firebase and, more recently, Supabase. But alongside those
MariaDB has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GridGain Systems, the company best known for its in-memory computing technology and for being the original creator of the open-source Apache Ignite
Over the past two years, “GenAI text-to-SQL” became one of the most repeated promises in enterprise AI: describe your question in plain English and get perfect SQL, ready for production.
For years, plenty of architecture discussions have leaned on a convenient idea: that SQL databases “don’t scale,” and that beyond a certain size the natural move is to abandon the
At a time when “scale” is often synonymous with sharding everything and building increasingly complex distributed systems, OpenAI is describing a notably restrained database architecture behind ChatGPT: a single PostgreSQL
Every sysadmin has seen the same pattern: backups start out as a clean pg_dump job, a couple of cron entries, and a bucket. Six months later it’s a fragile web
For years, running a couple of database queries has come with a hard-to-defend paradox: to do something simple, many developers end up launching heavy apps, installing huge toolchains, burning memory,
In modern infrastructure, cache is one of those quiet components that decides everything: whether a site feels instant or sluggish, whether an API survives a traffic spike or collapses, and
Databases rarely become “the bottleneck” with a clean warning. It usually starts with a small latency drift. Then CPU spikes appear during peak hours. Lock contention grows. Connection pools begin
When your MongoDB estate grows past gigabytes into multi-terabyte territory, the filesystem is not a footnote—it’s part of the performance envelope. With the WiredTiger storage engine, MongoDB’s I/O pattern (lots
