database News of 07/06/20

QuestDB Nabs $2.3m Seed To Build Open Source Time Series Database

QuestDB , a member of the Y Combinator summer 2020 cohort, is building an open source time series database with speed top of mind. Today the startup announced a $2.3 million seed round. Episode1 Ventures led the round with assistance from Seedcamp, ...

Oracle’S BlueKai Tracks You Across The Web. That Data Spilled Online

Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about? There’s no big conspiracy. Ad tech can be creepily accurate. Tech giant Oracle is one of a few companies in Silicon Valley that has near-perfected the ...

VESoft Raises $8m To Meet China’S Growing Need For Graph Databases

Sherman Ye founded VESoft in 2018 when he saw a growing demand for graph databases in China. Its predecessors like Neo4j and TigerGraph had already been growing aggressively in the West for a few years , while China was just getting to know the ...

Yugabyte Lands $30m Series B As Open Source Database Continues To Flourish

It’s been a big period of positive change for Yugabyte , makers of the open source, cloud native YugabyteDB database. Just last month they brought on former Pivotal CEO Bill Cook as CEO , and today the company announced it has closed a $30 ...

Database Security Startup JSonar Raises $50m From Goldman Sachs

Database security startup jSonar has secured $50 million in new funding from Goldman Sachs . The company, with offices in Waltham, Mass. and Vancouver, B.C., will use the new funding to grow its database security offering. In return, Goldman Sachs ...

Couchbase Raises $105m Series G Funding Round

Couchbase . the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round “to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.” ...

MemSQL Raises $50m In Debt Facility For Its Real-Time Database Platform

As a number of startups get back into fundraising in earnest, one that is on a growth tear has closed a substantial debt round to hold on to more equity in the company as it inches to being cash-flow positive. MemSQL — the relational, ...

Cockroach Labs Scores $86.6m Series D As Scalable Database Resonates

Cockroach Labs , the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk valuations, but was happy to have a big chunk of money to help build on its recent success and ride out ...

Security Lapse At India’S Jio Exposed Coronavirus Symptom Checker Results

Since the start of the outbreak, governments and companies have scrambled to develop apps and websites that can help users identify COVID-19 symptoms. India’s largest cell network Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance, launched its coronavirus ...

Confluent Lands Another Big Round With $250m Series E On $4.5b Valuation

The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the moment. The company is now valued at $4.5 billion. ...

A Payments Provider For Paying Court Fines And Utility Bills Exposed Years Of Transactions

A payments processor used by local governments to collect court fines and utility bill payments from residents across Arkansas and Oklahoma mistakenly left a cache of data, representing years of transactions, exposed on its website. Security ...

DataStax Launches Kubernetes Operator For Open Source Cassandra Database

Today, DataStax , the commercial company behind the open source Apache Cassandra project, announced an open source Kubernetes operator developed by the company to run a cloud native version of the database. When Sam Ramji, chief strategy ...

Hasura Raises $9.9m Series A To Simplify GraphQL For Developers

Hasura , a startup working to solve developer problems around connecting to databases when using the open source GraphQL tool, announced a $9.9 million Series A investment today. Vertex Ventures US led the round with participation from SAP.iO ...

neo4j 4.0 Graph Database Platform Brings Unlimited Scaling

Neo4j ,the premiere graph database development platform, announced the release of version 4.0 today, which features unlimited scaling among other updates. Graph databases are growing increasingly important as they are used to find connections in ...

A Christian-Friendly Payments Processor Spilled 6 Million Transaction Records Online

A little-known payments processor, which bills itself as a Christian-friendly company that does “not process credit card transactions for morally objectionable businesses,” left a database containing years’ worth of customer payment ...

Vistaprint Left A Customer Service Database Unprotected, Exposing Calls, Chats And Emails

A security researcher has found an exposed database on the internet belonging to online printing giant Vistaprint. Security researcher Oliver Hough discovered the unencrypted database last week. There was no password on the database, allowing ...

Google Cloud Launches Bare Metal Solution

Google Cloud today announced the launch of a new bare metal service, dubbed the Bare Metal Solution . We aren’t talking about bare metal servers offered directly by Google Cloud here, though. Instead, we’re talking about a solution ...

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Game Maker Exposed 452,000 Players’ Account Data

The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards of the Coast, left a database backup file in a public Amazon ...

neo4j Introduces New Cloud Service To Simplify Building A Graph Database

Neo4j , a popular graph database, is available as an open source product for anyone to download and use. Its enterprise product aimed at larger organizations is growing fast, but the company recognized there was a big market in between those two ...

Amazon Migrates More Than 100 Consumer Services From Oracle To AWS Databases

AWS and Oracle love to take shots at each other, but as much as Amazon has knocked Oracle over the years, it was forced to admit that it was in fact a customer. Today in a company blog post , the company announced it was shedding Oracle for ...