Commercial Release of InfiniteGraph, the leading distributed and scalable graph database, is now available!

InfiniteGraph™ Enables Development of Next-Gen Applications that Connect the Dots on a Global Scale.

Sunnyvale, CA – August 16, 2011 – InfiniteGraph, the number one commercial, distributed and scalable graph database, is changing the world by enabling a new, cost effective, and efficient way of navigating multiple types of databases for discovery of deeper and more relevant intelligence, enabling real-time decision support.  By being able to understand deeper, more complex relationships within existing and new data, companies can leverage social network analysis and business intelligence to achieve greater efficiencies and competitive advantage. InfiniteGraph can support any number of applications and systems around the analysis of relationships in big data, and does all of this across any number and size of data volumes, in real-time.

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MongoDB 1.8.1 Released

A new release of MongoDB is now available. Version 1.8.1 of the popular document database fixes a few issues that were present in the 1.8.0 release. Those still running the 1.8.0 version of the database are being recommended to upgrade.

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Neo4j 1.3 Nears GA With M5 Release

The popular graph database Neo4j has released M5 late last week. The milestone release has been described as the last release prior to the final release of 1.3 to the general public.

Features for the latest milestone include:

• Fresh new UI for Webadmin

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MongoDB 1.8 Released

10Gen has released MongoDB version 1.8 into the wild. This is a particular important release as it is the first release to incorporate a journaling storage engine. The incorporation of this feature was critical to provide single server durability for crash recovery.

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Couchbase Announces General Availability of Couchbase Server

Available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, Couchbase Server Is Powered by the World's Most Widely Deployed NoSQL Database Technology, Apache CouchDB, Created by Couchbase Founder Damien Katz

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (March 14, 2011) - Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, today released Couchbase Server, which is powered by the world's most widely deployed NoSQL database technology, Apache CouchDB. CouchDB has more than 10 million desktop deployments, and organizations worldwide rely on CouchDB's unique replication and sync capabilities, including Apple, The BBC, CERN and Mozilla. In addition, CouchDB supports more than 1.5 million users as the core database behind Canonical's Ubuntu One cloud service.

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Redis 2.2.0 Released

Redis 2.2.0 final is both a bug fix and minor enhancement release:

• SPOP is now replicated correctly in AOF and across slaves.
• CONFIG SET/GET for all the special encoding parameters of sets, lists, hashes.
• Now BRPOPLPUSH will reply with single null bulk on timeout.
• Specifying port 0 in redis.conf will tell Redis to don't listen on TCP socket.
• Propagate key eviction to slaves and AOF, similarly to expires.

Full Release notes can be found here
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Terrastore 0.8.0 Released

Terrastore, the open-source Java document database has just released 0.8.0. This release is one of the biggest to date in terms of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Sergio Bossa, the lead developer and creator of the project was kind enough to provide us with notes about the release.

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Cassandra 0.6.8 Released

Here's a little peek behind the curtain at how I operate here at NoSQL databases. I typically write the posts two to three days prior to their publication and schedule them. Most of the time this works fine. Sometimes you get what happens on Friday. Where 0.6.8 is released just after my 0.6.7 post was published.

Anyway, the important part of it all is that Cassandra 0.6.8 was released on Friday. As you can see the list is very small however, users are being requested to upgrade.

Here are the changes from the change log:

• Update windows .bat files to work outside of main Cassandra irectory (CASSANDRA-1713)
• Fix read repair regression from 0.6.7 (CASSANDRA-1727)
• More-efficient read repair (CASSANDRA-1719)

Changelog can be found here

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Cassandra 0.6.7 Released

UPDATE: Please note that Cassandra 0.6.8 is now available details can be found here.

Cassandra 0.6.7 has been released.

From the changelog:

• Quorum read optimization (CASSANDRA-1622)
• Update GC settings in cassandra.bat (CASSANDRA-1636)
• Fix hinted handoff replay (CASSANDRA-1656)
• Log type of dropped messages (CASSANDRA-1677)
• initMetadata wasn't loading saved partitioner from disk (CASSANDRA-1638)
• Log tpstats when dropping messages (CASSANDRA-1660)
• Avoid dropping messages off the client request path (CASSANDRA-1676)
• Fix jna errno reporting (CASSANDRA-1694)
• Add friendlier error for UnknownHostException on startup (CASSANDRA-1697)
• Add --skip-keys option to stress.py (CASSANDRA-1696)

Changelog can be found here

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Cassandra 0.6.6 Released

A new stability release of Cassandra was released yesterday (10/14). Version 0.6.6 does not contain any API changes but includes several improvements.

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Redis 2.0.0 is now available

Redis 2.0.0 was released primary features include:

• Addition of MULTI/EXEC to allow for execution of multiple commands in a single block
• Blocking pop from a list
• Ability for Publish/Subscribe messaging
• New hashes datatype that allows for multiple values per single key
• Virtual memory which allows the database to grow outside the limits of the physical RAM on the machine.

Download 2.0.0 here

Changelog is here

MongoDB 1.6.2 Now Available

Version 1.6.2 of MongoDB was release a few days ago. While this release contains primarily bug fixes users of 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are encouraged to upgrade.

Major Fixes:

• Database isolation issue with concurrency and deletion of objects
• Concurrency issue when doing in-memory sort
• Current operation tracking could cause segfault while being accessed
• Replica set initialization segfault fixed
• Map reduce sort option working again
• Administrative enhancements for using replica sets as shards 

Download the latest release here: MongoDB Downloads

MongoDB 1.6.1 Now Available

MongoDB 1.6.1 is now available for users.

Changes:

• CPU usage with replica sets when a node is down is improved
• Replica sets are handled better by repair
• Fix granular timing system on windows
• Improved regular slave initial sync time with multiple databases
• Make distinct yield
• Improve some cursor interactions when using sharding in combination with replica sets 

Get the release here: MongoDB Downloads

CouchDB Users - Upgrade to 1.0.1 Immediately

Folks using CouchDB version 1.0.0 are being told to upgrade to 1.0.1. Specifically there are two major fixes with this release, first the fix for the data corruption bug reported earlier. In addition, there is a fix for a cross site forgery attack.

Complete changes:

• Fix data corruption bug COUCHDB-844. Please see the release notice for details.
• Added support for replication via an HTTP/HTTP proxy.
• Fixed various replicator bugs for interop with older CouchDB versions.
• Show fields saved along with _deleted=true. Allows for auditing of deletes.
• Enable basic-auth popup when required to access the server, to prevent people from getting locked out.
• User interface element for querying stale (cached) views.
• Fixed CVE-2010-2234: Apache CouchDB Cross Site Request Forgery Attack

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