Tag: NoSQL
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MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery
MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery. See more on the MondoDB Journaling page. Good stuff by the Mongo guys, bringing it one step closer to Enterprise readiness.
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Acunu NoSQL Appliance
GigaOm reports that Big Data Startup Acunu Raises Small Funding. These guys (based in London) are building a HW appliance with SSD for a variety of NoSQL stores, currently supporting Cassandra and an Amazon S3 compatible RESTful interface.
The Acunu Storage Core is an open source next-generation storage stack built from the ground up for Big Data.… Continued
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How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop
With a flurry of recent BI-oriented partnerships, it’s no surprise Cloudera is attracting so much interest.
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Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase
Let the NoSQL Consolidation Wars begin: Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase.
In essence, Couchbase will be CouchDB with scale-out. Alternatively, Couchbase will be Membase with a richer programming interface.
TechCrunch and GigaOm also report on the news.
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NoSQL Tapes
Check out the NoSQL Tapes video interview series, they’ve released their first few recordings on hBase, Graphs, Dynamo, MapReduce etc, with more to come.
Via the NoSQL Databases Blog.
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NoSQL Consolidation
Will there be consolidation or proliferation in the NoSQL space in 2011? Some people just refuse to bet, and tell us that there will be both: NoSQL – consolidating and proliferating in 2011. And all that with good reason, since we’ve seen the same going on in Linux too: consolidation on a few key commercial players, proliferation in the community space, where everybody scratches their itch.
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What’s in a Name
Following up on last week’s The meaning of NoSQL, there are quite a number of well thought out articles around CouchOne’s decision to not associate itself with NoSQL:
- Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading about the fact that Cloud was at the same position three years ago, but climbed to hill to success, whereas Grid Computing didn’t, and NoSQL likely won’t
- The beginning of the end of NoSQL notes that Big Data, with which NoSQL has become closely associated, is endangered as well because there’s a trademark on that term.
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The meaning of NoSQL
If anyone NoSQL solution vendor’s marketing skills stand out, then it’s certainly CouchOne. First the rebranding from CouchIO to CouchOne, then the awareness of the shift in the general perception of NoSQL away from the generic meaning of ‘not (only) SQL’ to meaning ‘Big Data’ solution.… Continued
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NoSQL and Cloud Security
NoSQL and Cloud Security: it’s in a bad shape, says Jeff Darcy, so pretty much single-user only on firewalled machines. Make sure you know what you’re doing!