Redis is no longer open source. In March 2024 the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. On my recent OpenObservabilty Talks episode, I delved into Valkey, a prominent fork of Redis.

Finally, we are pleased to announce the availability of the new Redis* open source server packages for Icinga DB for all supported distributions . You may have already noticed that we had some issues with the previous packages here and there, but we’ve been working on them for months and now they’re finally available for you to use.

Devart’s joining Snowflake Partner Network Technology Select Tier is a highly anticipated milestone that will positively impact the experience of those who choose to work with Snowflake and look for extended connectivity solutions that perfectly sync with this platform. There are many connectivity solutions on the market, but only some of them provide full compatibility with Snowflake data types, support Snowflake standard SQL expressions, or are fit for ETL.

Redgate Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With RedgateMonitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. Redgate Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.

This Post was updated in June of 2024 to remove the requirement to install VMAgent on each Proxmox VE node, and update the screenshots to reflect updates in Managed VictoriaMetrics and Grafana.

Redgate recently published the 2024 State of the Database Landscape report, which explores how the challenges for data professionals now encompass a lot more than managing and monitoring their database estates for high availability and optimum performance. Database DevOps, multiple database platforms, the cloud, AI, and making data available for development and testing have now also become part of the daily conversation.

Monitoring, in the context of software, is a catch-all term for visibility into infrastructure, or an application. It can encompass metrics, logs, traces, and any other telemetry data that provides information on a running application, server, or another device. Monitoring helps you catch problems before your customers do and speeds up the time to resolution for any problems that do slip through. Managed monitoring is where another company runs part or all of your monitoring system.

Businesses widely use relational databases because their ability to structure data makes it much easier to manage. Tables and views, among other database objects, can often be found within such a database. In this article, we will discover the fundamental differences between these two concepts in SQL databases, their characteristics, use cases, and how they impact data management and security in your database projects.

Welcome to our MySQL Tutorial, tailored for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Dive into the core of MySQL, a leading relational database management system that empowers users with SQL, the essential language for database operations. Our tutorial, endorsed by Oracle, offers an open-source learning experience under the GNU license. Embark on a journey through key MySQL topics, from basic database functions to advanced SQL data manipulation.

Monitoring can get expensive due to the huge quantities of data that need to be processed. In this blog post, you’ll learn the best ways to store and process monitoring metrics to reduce your costs, and how VictoriaMetrics can help. This blog post will only cover open-source solutions. VictoriaMetrics is proudly open source. You’ll get the most out of this blog post if you are familiar with Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir or VictoriaMetrics.