Author: Markus Perdrizat
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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…
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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. via How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop
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Gartner and “Good Enough” Data Integration
Gartner and “Good Enough” Data Integration: Data Integration leaders are under pressure from “good enough” competitors. This gives non-dominant players a golden opportunity to contest the status quo.
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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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2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
Gartner released it’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, and Oracle apparently is sponsoring it for the public. We have to obvious suspects in the leaders quadrant: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, as well as a few smaller folks. Most of the remaining vendors are in the niche players quadrant, there are no visionaries…
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January 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update Released
It’s that time of the year again: January 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update Released. People using OEM Grid Control on 11g versions and people using RAC on 10g and newer are vulnerable to remote vulnerabilities not requiring authentication, so again quite a serious CPU. Go and patch!
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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…
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SQL Azure Year in Review
A quick one today: SQL Azure – The Year in Review, mostly because of it’s good pointers to more SQL Azure resources.
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Five Predictions for your Database in 2011
Xeround are making the future look like it’s just waiting for them in Five Predictions for your Database in 2011. But that’s not surprising, given that they’ve chosen to work on Cloud DB technology because they think it’s hot. These are the three good ones: Cloud DB goes far beyond just moving standard RDBMS into…
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