TimescaleDB launches the industry's first multi-node, petabyte-scale relational database for time-series ... Icon Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and other leading investors.

AWS is currently working to add global-scale transaction processing technology to its Postgres-compatible Aurora database service, which would give the likes of Google Cloud’s Spanner and Cockroach ...

And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage.

However, the database is still plagued by problems with its limited resilience and scalability, which makes it less than ideal for applications that must remain online 24/7, scale rapidly to meet ...

PostgreSQL users who were considering adopting a distributed NoSQL database like MongoDB or Cassandra to gain scalability benefits for big data may want to think twice about that approach following ...