Microsoft’s new DocumentDB builds on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public version of the Project Florence database engine that...
Microsoft’s new DocumentDB rethinks NoSQL on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public version of the Project Florence database engine that...
DocumentDB: A standalone NoSQL database built on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public version of the Project Florence database engine that...
Sourcegraph unveils AI coding agents
Looking to challenge well-established GitHub Copilot in AI-powered coding assistance, Sourcegraph has announced coding agents for code review, code migration, testing, documentation, and notification, along with an API for building custom agents. Sour...
AMD AE4DMA Driver Merged For Linux 6.14
In addition to the AMDXDNA driver being merged for Linux 6.14 for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs, this next kernel version is introducing another new AMD kernel driver that hasn't been previously covered on Phoronix: AMD AE4DMA...
Thunderbird Email Client Moving to Monthly Feature Drops
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
Thunderbird Moves to Monthly Updates from March 2025
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
Apple’s macOS UNIX certification is a lie
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a someone mentioning macOS is a UNIX approaches 1. In fact, it was only late last year that The Open Group announced that macOS 15.0 was, once again, certified as UNIX, continuing Apple’s long-...
Async closure support is stable for Rust 1.85
Rust’s leadership team announced progress on the 26 Rust project goals for 2024. Leadership representatives said the project emphasized work on asynchronous closures and finalizing its Rust development goals for early 2025. Async closures, cited as ...
