Cloud Database Report

Cloud Database Report

Oracle Lays Off, Microsoft Takes Off, and $261M in Startup Funding

It's getting hot out there!

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John Foley
Aug 03, 2022
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We’re in the dog days of summer, which are the hottest days of the year in the U.S., from early July to mid August, according to the Farmer’s Almanac. The database market has been relatively quiet—no news for weeks from AWS, Databricks, MongoDB, or Snowflake.

But we do have a number of things to catch up on. I’ve make three trips to San Francisco in the past few months, to participate in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon (you can read about my adventure here), as well as to join SingleStore’s [r]evolution 2022 virtual event.

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I hosted two sessions during SingleStore’s webcast, including a one-on-one conversation with the company’s new SVP of Engineering, Shireesh Thota, and a briefing with two SingleStore customers—Siemens and Impact—about their projects to develop real-time analytics.

View the replay of SingleStore [r]evolution 2022 here.

On the news front, following are a few of the latest developments…

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