Now AWS will be able to pull in revenue where organizations had previously sought to use MongoDB for databases in their on-premises data centers.

Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others.

The new integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka, Elasticsearch, Fivetran, MongoDB, TIBCO Data Virtualization, and TIBCO Spotfire build on the open and extensible Alation Open ...

Google claims that, thanks to throughput and storage improvements to Cloud Spanner, the service is now effectively half the cost of DynamoDB.