This Week in Databases: Redis Boosts AI Memory, NeonDB Auth Beta Drops, CrateDB Slashes Storage by 50%
#13: Tech product updates of the third week of February (2 minutes)
Get the latest database buzz from the week of February 23, 2025! Redis enhances AI agents with Mem0 integration, NeonDB rolls out Neon Auth beta for seamless authentication, and CrateDB’s v5.10 cuts disk space in half while speeding up analytics. Plus, Weaviate’s v1.29.0 brings RBAC and fast BM25, MeiliSearch stabilizes AI search in v1.13, and ClickHouse unveils a Postgres CDC connector in public beta. Catch these updates, more SaaS breakthroughs, and a MongoDB user story powering the Internet of Vehicles!
🔥 Major updates
Redis
Redis has added the integration of Mem0 to enhance the capabilities of AI agents by providing efficient and scalable memory management.
NeonDB
Neon Auth is now available in Beta to all users! Set up authentication for your application without writing integration code — Neon Auth automatically syncs user profiles from your auth provider straight to your Neon database.
📦 Product updates
Weaviate
Weaviate has released v1.29.0 - RBAC, Async Replication, ACORN improvements, ColBERT, Blazing Fast BM25
MeiliSearch
Meilisearch v1.13 stabilizes AI-powered search integration! 🎉 This release also introduces two new experimental features: upgrading to new Meilisearch releases without generating a dump and making federated requests across multiple Meilisearch instances
Apache Beam
Beam 2.63.0 is here with improvements and new functionality
PostgreSQL
SQLPage is an open-source tool that turns SQL queries into interactive web apps. It's used to build advanced internal tools, dashboards, and public websites, entirely in SQL. And it’s released a new v0.33 version with UI improvements and optimisations
Crate
CrateDB v5.10 introduces Distributed Hash Joins for faster query execution and a new storage format that reduces disk space usage by up to 50%, improving real-time analytics and cutting infrastructure costs
☁️ SaaS updates
DynamoDB
DynamoDB team has announced the new best practice for configuring your DAX client
ClickHouse
ClickHouse has announced a Public Beta for the Postgres CDC connector in ClickPipes. With this, customers can easily replicate their Postgres databases to ClickHouse Cloud with just a few clicks
Also they’ve announced the GA of ClickHouse BYOC on AWS. A fully managed ClickHouse Cloud service deployed in your own AWS account. Designed for large-scale deployments, with personalized support and onboarding. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 aligned.
Crate
CrateDB has announced an integration of Coreflux for scalable IIoT data management to unlock real-time insights and optimize industrial processes
InfluxDB
InfluxData and AWS are expanding their strategic offering with Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replicas to provide for developers an efficient way to maintain performance without the burden of managing distributed systems
💡 User Stories
MongoDB
Read how MongoDB enables BAIC Group to boost Internet of Vehicles experience by enhancing data efficiency and security