database News of 06/26/19

Snowflake Co-Founder And President Of Product Benoit Dageville Is Coming To TC Sessions: Enterprise

When it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the story is continuing to develop for the cloud ...

Thousands Of Medical Injury Claim Records Exposed By Ad Agency

An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms sign up potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database that was left unsecured. The database contained submissions as part of a lead-generation effort by X ...

Apollo Raises $22m For Its GraphQL Platform

Apollo , a San Francisco-based startup that provides a number of developer and operator tools and services around the GraphQL query language , today announced that it has raised a $22 million growth funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ...

Microsoft And Oracle Link Up Their Clouds

Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. This alliance ...

Fluree Grabs $4.7m Seed Round To Build Blockchain-Based Database

Fluree , a North Carolina startup that wants to bring the immutability of blockchain to the database, announced a $4.7 million seed round today led by ​4490 Ventures​ with participation from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund​. As CEO ...

Security Lapse Exposed Private Theta Photos

Millions of photos taken by Theta camera owners — some private and unlisted — were left exposed after security researchers found an open database without a password. Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found the leaky database and reported the exposure to ...

Millions Of Instagram Influencers Had Their Private Contact Data Scraped And Exposed

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to ...

Huawei Launches AI-Backed Database To Target Enterprise Customers

China’s Huawei is making a serious foray into the enterprise business market after it unveiled a new database management product on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with entrenched vendors like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The ...

Microsoft Brings Azure SQL Database To The Edge (And Arm)

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in the cloud to edge computing devices, including, ...

Couchbase’S Mobile Database Gets Built-In ML And Enhanced Synchronization Features

Couchbase , the company behind the eponymous NoSQL database, announced a major update to its mobile database today that brings some machine learning smarts, as well as improved synchronization features and enhanced stats and logging support to the ...

Job Recruitment Site Ladders Exposed 13 Million User Profiles

Ladders, one of the most popular job recruitment sites in the U.S. specializing in high-end jobs, has exposed more than 13.7 million user records, following a security lapse. The New York-based company left an Amazon -hosted Elasticsearch database ...

MongoDB To Acquire Open Source Mobile Database Realm, Startup That Raised $40m

MongoDB announced today that is acquiring Realm , an open source database geared for mobile applications. The startup raised over $40 million before being acquired, but the companies did not share the purchase price. It’s the kind of ...

Google Cloud Challenges AWS With New Open-Source Integrations

Google today announced that it has partnered with a number of top open-source data management and analytics companies to integrate their products into its Google Cloud Platform and offer them as managed services operated by its partners. The ...

A Family Tracking App Was Leaking Real-Time Location Data

A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password. The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps , ...

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, ...