Company Behind RethinkDB Is Shutting Down, Database to Remain Open Source

Company Behind RethinkDB Is Shutting Down, Database to Remain Open Source

RethinkDB engineers moving en masse to Stripe

Over 6,000 Redis Database Servers Ready for the Taking

Over 6,000 Redis Database Servers Ready for the Taking

Servers currently not used for anything malicious

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • December 17th, 2015
Two Years Later, There Are Still 35,000 Public, Unauthenticated Instances of MongoDB

Two Years Later, There Are Still 35,000 Public, Unauthenticated Instances of MongoDB

Memcached and Redis servers are in the same situation

  • Web Blog
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 20th, 2015
Top 10 Most Popular Open Source Databases, October 2015 Edition

Top 10 Most Popular Open Source Databases, October 2015 Edition

While Oracle is the most popular database overall, MySQL leads the open source database engines rankings

  • Web Blog
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 25th, 2015
Apache Cassandra NoSQL Database Rewritten in C++, Is 10 Times Faster

Apache Cassandra NoSQL Database Rewritten in C++, Is 10 Times Faster

New ScyllaDB can handle 1,000,000 per second per server

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 4th, 2015
Security Issues Fixed in OrientDB "Studio" Web Interface

Security Issues Fixed in OrientDB "Studio" Web Interface

OrientDB devs fix CSRF and click-jacking vulnerabilities

Administrators Continue to Fail in Securing Databases by Using Proper Configs

Administrators Continue to Fail in Securing Databases by Using Proper Configs

Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and Memcached servers are not properly configured by their administrators

Old Configuration Error Leaves 30,000 MongoDB Databases Exposed <em>UPDATED</em>

Old Configuration Error Leaves 30,000 MongoDB Databases Exposed UPDATED

3-years-old error in the database's default config at fault

What's Coming in Redis 3.2

What's Coming in Redis 3.2

Bloom filters, the Geo hashing API, memory optimizations, cluster rebalancing, and AOF safety features are announced

  • Cloud
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 3rd, 2015
There Are No Plans in MongoDB's Future for a Hosted Service

There Are No Plans in MongoDB's Future for a Hosted Service

MongoDB is walking a tightrope between openness & enterprise

MongoDB Servers Crashed by Flaw in Third-Party Library

MongoDB Servers Crashed by Flaw in Third-Party Library

Specially crafted regular expression brings system down

About 40,000 MongoDB Databases Found Open Online

About 40,000 MongoDB Databases Found Open Online

Students find no mechanisms protecting the databases

  • Web Blog
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 5th, 2014
Script of the Day: Neo4j

Script of the Day: Neo4j

A powerful graph-based NoSQL database engine written in Java

MapR Technologies Announces Big Data Platform for Hbase

MapR Technologies Announces Big Data Platform for Hbase

MapR M7 includes Integrated Snapshots, Mirroring, and many other features

Red Hat Announces JBoss Data Grid 6

Red Hat Announces JBoss Data Grid 6

Users will gain access to some important and interesting features

Digg Rolls Out NoSQL Solution to Replace MySQL

Digg Rolls Out NoSQL Solution to Replace MySQL

Digg switches to Cassandra to replace MySQL