Database Innovations from A (AWS) to Z (Zilliz)
From OLAP to distributed SQL to vectors, the pace of new platform development hasn't slowed.
The database market’s cup runneth over with new platforms and cloud services—and more just keep on coming. In the past few days, ClickHouse launched a new OLAP cloud service, and Zilliz a new vector database service.
In fact, Carnegie Mellon University’s encyclopedic Database of Databases has grown to an incredible 875 different database management systems. Some of the latest are GreptimeDB, a time-series DB written in Rust; and Kuzu, a graph-oriented DB for use in embedded applications.
With so many DBMSes available, there have been rumblings that market consolidation is inevitable. So far, however, in the Yin and Yang of “product innovation vs. product saturation,” the Yin is clearly winning.
Following is my latest roundup of recent activity, leading with Werner Vogels’ master class in how it all starts with engineering.
AWS
What is AWS’s secret to success? A big part of it is a dynamic cloud architecture that ranges from milliseconds…