The largest database company investment ever?

#​359 — June 18, 2021 Read on the Web ✍️   This newsletter is taking an extended break in two weeks, so we've been shaking the issues up a bit, and I hope you enjoyed last week's Data Processing Tools special edition. This week we're going with a mix of news and some perennially useful guides that have been popular over the years - we've marked them with a trophy emoji 🏆 :-) __ Peter Cooper, editor Database Weekly Neo4j Announces $325 Million Series F Investment — Representing what they claim is the “largest investment in a private database company” ever, the company maintaining the popular Neo4j graph database system is now valued at over $2bn. Neo4j Inc. 🏆 The Database of Databases — An online encyclopedia of 748, and counting, database systems from Carnegie Mellon University. It also includes a leaderboard of stats showing the most common countries of origin (US is #1 unsurprisingly), programming language used (C++, Java, C, and Go take the top four spots), and more. Database of Dat