Author: Markus Perdrizat
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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,…
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Oracle 11g Interactive Quick Reference
Oracle took the popular DBA Views poster and now provide a Flash based digital version for download at Oracle 11g Interactive Quick Reference. I’m not sure how helpful that’s ultimately going to be as it doesn’t allow for the same kind of visual browsing, but wanted to post this anyway. Via the Oracle DB Insider…
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SQL In the Cloud
CloudBzz has a little intro to SQL In the Cloud, and with that they mean the public cloud. Good overview of existing offerings, and the suggestion that Cloud-based DBaaS options will continue to grow in importance and will eventually become the dominant model. Cloud vendors will have to invest in solutions that enable horizontal scaling…
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Scaling Out without Partitioning
Todd Hoff mentions Hyder – Scaling Out without Partitioning. Hyder is a research database at Microsoft, in which the database is the log, no partitioning is required, and the database is multi-versioned. Basically a shared Flash device for the logs: For transaction execution, each server has a cache of the last committed state. That cache…
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10 Signs You Need A Big Data Retention Solution
10 Signs You Need A Big Data Retention Solution by Rainstor’s Ramon Chen. The reality, driven by more stringent legislation, governance and extended on-demand accessibility to historical data, is that structured data retention is now fast becoming the #1 imperative for businesses worldwide. The article outlines key signs you need a dedicated solution for Big…
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Database Discovery Made Easy with MAP 5.5
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) sounds like a good tool to have. Check out the new release at Database Discovery Made Easy with MAP 5.5.
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What are the criteria used by Oracle to decide whether a vulnerability warrants a fix in the CPU?
Oracle answer one of the most asked questions around CPUs: What are the criteria used by Oracle to decide whether a vulnerability warrants a fix in the CPU?
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Sybase IQ PlexQ Distributed Query Platform
Sybase announced their implementation of MPP in Sybase IQ, PlexQ(TM) Distributed Query Platform, as part of the recent Sybase IQ 15.3 Beta release. They’re talking about Redefining MPP, and ‘MPP done right’. They will use several or all nodes to process a query, but still rely on shared storage. Sounds as if they’re directly pitching…
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Teradata Partners with RainStor for Big Data Retention and Retrieval
Teradata Partners with RainStor for Big Data Retention and Retrieval. They play it as a Retention thing (which is the right thing to do), but I wonder what that means for the Teradata Extreme Data Appliance, if anything? But even more so I wonder what that means for Rainstor, since this is their first partner…
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Negative on Microsoft PDW?
Merv Adrian, who just announced he’s going to Gartner, is quite negative on MS’ SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse in Microsoft Leaps Late, Lags with SQL Server PDW. Seems that Microsoft, besides being two years late to the party, also violated quite a few unwritten analyst treatment rules around the launch of PDW at SQL PASS…
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