Database News from Oracle, Pinecone, SingleStore, Promethium

Something for everyone: in-database ML; startup funding; new hires; & a partnership with Snowflake

It’s a jam-packed day in the cloud database market led by Oracle’s announcement of in-database machine learning for MySQL HeatWave, with other news from Pinecone Systems, SingleStore, and Promethium.

Oracle Adds In-Database ML to MySQL HeatWave

Let’s start with the big dog. Oracle introduced in-database ML for MySQL HeatWave, the in-memory query accelerator for its MySQL cloud service.

As the name implies, the new in-database capability makes it possible to run ML models within the database rather than externally. The advantages include efficiency, performance, cost, security, and ease-of-use, according to Oracle.

Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect, said that the challenges of adopting ML — training algorithms, generating models, running inference on production data — have prevented many organizations from using it.

“Why is it that more people don’t use machine learning? It’s very hard to actually use,” he said. MySQL HeatWave ML automates and simplifies otherwise manual…