Azure SQL Database named among the top 3 databases of 2020

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to share that Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020 according to DB-Engines, who recently announced their DBMS of the Year award. DB-Engines collects information on database management systems and it provides a widely accepted popularity ranking of database management systems. Azure SQL Database’s popularity score increased 253…

Improving zlib-cloudflare and comparing performance with other zlib forks

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedImproving zlib-cloudflare and comparing performance with other zlib forks The zlib compression library is widely used to compress and decompress data. This library is utilized by popular programs like the Java Development Kit (JDK), Linux distributions, libpng, Git, and many others. Because zlib is widely adopted, the maintainer of the original version…

Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control Amazon EMR now natively integrates with Apache Ranger, allowing you to define, enforce, and audit fine-grained data access control. With this feature, you can define and enforce 1/ database, table, and column level authorization policies for Apache Spark and Apache Hive…