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Microsoft Blocks New Azure SQL Data Sync Deployments Ahead of September 2027 Retirement
Microsoft has stopped subscriptions that never used Azure SQL Data Sync from creating new sync groups, entering the final phase before the service's September 30, 2027 shutdown.
Polars 2.0 Release Candidate Makes the Streaming Engine the Default, Breaking CSV Reads and Type Coercion
Polars 2.0-rc.1 flips LazyFrame queries to the streaming engine by default, a change the project says should be roughly 5x faster while removing melt(), join_nulls, and other older APIs.
Harper 5.2 Gives Each Database Its Own Commit Path, Cutting P99 Latency for Unrelated Work From 223.7ms to 2.6ms
Harper's 5.2 release isolates database commits onto dedicated threads and adds a record cache, while a company benchmark argues single-runtime architecture beats a Vercel-based stack on personalized reads.
Databricks Acquires Electric to Bring WASM Postgres Sync to AI Agent Sandboxes
Databricks has acquired Electric, pairing its WASM-based local Postgres, PGlite, with a real-time sync engine to give AI agents fast local data alongside its centralized Lakebase database.
AWS Glue 6.0 Ships With 30% Lower Pricing and Full Apache Iceberg v3 Support
AWS Glue 6.0 launches with 30% lower pricing, complete Apache Iceberg v3 support built on Iceberg 1.11.0, and a modernized Spark 4.1 runtime.
Redis 8.10 Ships Compact Hashes, a Bulk-Insert HIMPORT Command, and Native BACKUP
Redis 8.10 reaches general availability with a memory-saving compact hash encoding, a bulk-insert HIMPORT command, and a node-side BACKUP command built on multi-part AOF.
pg_clickhouse v0.10 Pushes Correlated Subqueries to ClickHouse, Cutting a TPC-H Query From 32.7 Seconds to 37 Milliseconds
ClickHouse's pg_clickhouse extension now pushes whole correlated subqueries down to ClickHouse, taking TPC-H pushdown coverage from 12 to 16 of 22 queries.
DuckDB Previews v2.0 "Cyanoptera," Replacing Its Postgres-Derived Parser With a PEG Grammar Ahead of a Fall Release
DuckDB's team previewed version 2.0, codenamed Cyanoptera, replacing its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with an extensible PEG-based parser and adding client/server mode and triggers.
Turbovec, an Open-Source Rust Implementation of Google's TurboQuant, Claims to Outperform FAISS in Vector Search Benchmarks
An open-source Rust vector index built on Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm reports beating FAISS on speed, memory and insertion latency in benchmarks published alongside its 1.0.0 release.
AWS Launches Native Vector Search for DynamoDB, Scaling to Trillions of Embeddings Without a Separate Database
AWS added native vector search to DynamoDB on August 5, letting developers store embeddings alongside operational data and query up to 4,096 dimensions without a separate vector database.
QuestDB 10.0 Ships QWP, a Binary Protocol Unifying Writes and Arrow Reads Over a Single Connection
QuestDB 10.0 introduces QWP, a binary columnar protocol that replaces separate ILP and PostgreSQL wire connections, cutting ingestion overhead and streaming query results into Apache Arrow at over 200 million rows a second.
Turso Builds a Postgres-Compatible Database Engine on Its Rust Rewrite of SQLite
Turso, which rewrote SQLite from scratch in Rust, is now building a Postgres-speaking frontend on the same engine, aiming to be what its CEO calls 'the LLVM of databases.'