The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Companies normally keep things pretty quiet in the run up to their annual user conferences, so they can pepper ...

We first covered ScyllaDB on ZDNet back in 2017. Its story is one of deep tech, open source, and pivots. Started by Hypervisor and Linux Red Hat veterans Dor Laor and Avi Kivity, the database that ...

Amazon DynamoDB is the latest NoSQL offering from AWS. It is a managed, scalable and on-demand database with provisioned throughput. Provisioned Throughput will let you state your read and write ...

Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB's DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down for several hours yesterday, affecting millions of users worldwide. The outage was the result of a failed update to the DynamoDB API, which stores user information ...

Imagine rewriting Cassandra from Java to C++. Cassandra is already one of the most highly available NoSQL databases, although its maximum latency under load can run on the high side, because the Java ...

On October 20, 2025 (Japan time), a large-scale service outage occurred in the Amazon Web Services North Virginia (us-east-1) region, forcing web services and applications around the world to ...