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Managed databases that scale capacity automatically and bill by usage, without customers provisioning or operating servers.
Cloudflare has made Hyperdrive's MySQL support generally available after 20 bug fixes since the beta. Teams running MySQL behind Workers can now weigh it for production, with query caching as the feature to test hardest.
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Cloudflare says D1 has passed 5.5 million databases, with live databases up 15x in a year as of October 8, 2026. Its post lists the design tenets behind the control plane and says operators building on its platform can reuse many of them.
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Turbopuffer is rewriting its serverless database as v3, moving the ANN index out of the core of storage and making it one of several secondary indexes. A dev.to explainer of the September 30 post says the vector-first layout held back GROUP BY and aggregation queries.
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Databricks made Lakebase Search generally available, pairing BM25 with a Postgres vector index it says runs 4 times cheaper than pgvector at 100M vectors. The vector index lives in object storage behind a cache, so large agent corpora no longer need RAM sized to the whole index.
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AWS added a SearchVectors API that keeps embeddings in the same table as the data they describe. The second store and the job that feeds it are now optional, and metered three ways.
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