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A controversy about the handling of the Time Zone Database (tzdb) has
been brewing since May, but has come to a head in recent weeks.
Changes that were proposed to simplify the main database file have some
consequences in terms of time-zone history and…

Timescale provides a balance between a familiar developer platform and a flexible database for modern applications while retaining the ease and scalability of modern cloud services.

High-performance open-source in-memory graph database for GraphRAG, AI memory, agentic AI, and real-time graph analytics. Cypher-compatible, built in C++. - memgraph/memgraph

A searchable database of electronics SMD components marking codes. Index page.

Today, we’re adding a proxy on top of the GitHub Advisory Database that speaks the `npm audit` protocol.

One of the decisions devs make is which database to use. Read this post to learn about the set of choices we made while building SingleStore and why we believe this is the dbms for data-intensive applications.

This post is authored by Felix Schuster (Edgeless Systems).    Confidential computing is a breakthrough approach to data protection: sensitive workloads are run inside hardware-isolated and runtime-encrypted environments called enclaves. Enclaves can pro…

One of the decisions devs make is which database to use. Read this post to learn about the set of choices we made while building SingleStore and why we believe this is the dbms for data-intensive applications.

"All Linux and Mac-based computers pull their time zones from a massively important database — the time zone database," explains Medium's tech site OneZero. And this vastly crucial project is ultimately overseen by one man who Medium calls "The Time…

All signs seem to indicate that Apple will finally ship IndexedDB in Safari 7.1 sometime this year. This means that Safari, the last holdout against IndexedDB, will finally relent to the inevitable…

Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw

From 15,000 Database Connections to under 100—A Tech Debt Tale

Sunny Beatteay, DigitalOcean

Whenever a company scales quickly, they invariably take on technical debt. It's unavoidable. However, the existence of tech debt isn't the problem, it's how you…

When running a production database, one needs to carefully consider all the data access patterns. The usual tr...

A hacker has breached the Argentinian government\'s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country\'s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.

collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones

Browse 200+ free database templates — real-world schemas and ERDs for Laravel, e-commerce, SaaS, and more. Clone one, customize it, and export the SQL.

There are two kinds of technologists in the world: those who see the database as a means to end and those who see it as an end in itself. For a long time, the latter group has dominated the database conversation, which has focused deeply on performance tuning…

CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.

A little over fifteen years ago, Adam Bosworth – then with Google, and formerly of BEA and Microsoft – noticed something interesting. For all that they represented the state of the art, the leading database vendors of the time – all of which were relational…