database News of 03/20/19

Gearbest Security Lapse Exposed Millions Of Shopping Orders

Gearbest, a Chinese online shopping giant, has exposed millions of user profiles and shopping orders, security researchers have found. Security researcher Noam Rotem found an Elasticsearch server leaking millions of records each week, including ...

Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License — Again

Redis Labs , fresh off its latest funding round , today announced a change to how it licenses its Redis Modules. This may not sound like a big deal, but in the world of open-source projects, licensing is currently a big issue. That’s because ...

Redis Labs Raises A $60m Series E Round

Redis Labs , a startup that offers commercial services around the Redis in-memory data store (and which counts Redis creator and lead developer Salvatore Sanfilippo among its employees), today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series E ...

DigitalOcean Launches Its Managed Database Service

DigitalOcean started as an affordable but basic virtual private server offering with a pleasant user interface. Over the last few years, the company started adding features like object and block storage, load balancers and a container service. ...

Google’S Cloud Firestore NoSQL Database Hits General Availability

Google today announced that Cloud Firestore , its serverless NoSQL document database for mobile, web and IoT apps, is now generally available. In addition, Google is also introducing a few new features and bringing the service to ten new ...

Data Management Giant Rubrik Leaked A Massive Database Of Client Data In Security Lapse

A server security lapse has exposed a massive database of customer information belonging to Rubrik, an IT security and cloud data management giant. The company pulled the server offline Tuesday within an hour of TechCrunch alerting the company, ...

Timescale Announces $15m Investment And New Enterprise Version Of TimescaleDB

It’s a big day for Timescale , makers of the open source time series database, TimescaleDB . The company announced a $15 million investment and a new enterprise version of the product. The investment is technically an extension of the $12.4 ...

Massive Mortgage And Loan Data Leak Gets Worse As Original Documents Also Exposed

Remember that massive data leak of mortgage and loan data we reported on Wednesday? In case you missed it, millions of documents were found leaking after an exposed Elasticsearch server was found without a password. The data contained highly ...

Microsoft Acquires Citus Data

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Citus Data , a company that focused on making PostgreSQL database faster and more scalable. Citus’ open source PostgreSQL extension essentially turns the application into a distributed ...

Open-Source Leader Confluent Raises $125m On $2.5b Valuation

Confluent , the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project, announced a $125 million Series D round this morning on an enormous $2.5 billion valuation. The round was led by existing investor Sequoia Capital with ...

An Unsecured Database Exposed The Personal Details Of 202m Job Seekers In China

The personal details belonging to more than 202 million job seekers in China, including information like phone numbers, email addresses, driver licenses and salary expectations, were freely available to anyone who knew where to look for as long as ...

Google’S Cloud Spanner Database Adds New Features And Regions

Cloud Spanner , Google’s globally distributed relational database service, is getting a bit more distributed today with the launch of a new region and new ways to set up multi-region configurations. The service is also getting a new feature ...

They Scaled YouTube. Now They’Ll Shard Everyone With PlanetScale

When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook, and Dropbox seed fund a database startup, you know there’s something special going on under the hood. Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane saved YouTube from a scalability nightmare by inventing and ...

A Popular ‘Boomoji’ App Exposed Millions Of Users’ Contact Lists And Location Data

Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put passwords on two of its internet-facing databases. The China-based app ...

AWS Launches New Time Series Database

AWS announced a new time series database today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. The new product called DynamoDB On-Demand is a fully managed database designed to track items over time, which can be particularly useful for Internet of Things scenarios. ...

1-877-kars4kids Had A Data Breach

Bad news: 1-877-KARS4KIDS had a data breach. Worse news: now you’ll have that awful jingle stuck in your head all day. The New Jersey-based charity has plagued the American airwaves for years with the “most hated” jingle to ...

neo4j Nabs $80m Series E As Graph Database Tech Flourishes

Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market in what could be the company’s last private fundraise. The round was led by One Peak Partners and ...

Cockroach Labs Launches CockroachDB As Managed Service

Cockroach Lab’s open source SQL database, CockroachDB , has been making inroads since it launched last year, but as any open source technology matures, in order to move deeper into markets it has to move beyond technical early adopters to a ...