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  • Database Diversity Revisited

    According to Monash: every sufficiently large enterprise needs to be cognizant of at least 7 kinds of database challenge. via Database diversity revisited. I can relate to that for the Financial Industry (not having had much exposure to other industries). I wonder if maybe there should be an 8. challenge, to provide a cost effective…

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  • NuoDB Closes $10 Million Series B

    NuoDB Closes $10 Million Series B With Gary Morgenthaler. These guys have long been on my “Cloud Database” watchlist, now’s the time for them to reach out and grow. GigaOm has some background about how they’re rooted with Database industry veterans (turned venture capitalists…).

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  • BitTorrent Torque alpha puts downloads back into the browser

    BitTorrent folks are working on an in-browser BitTorrent client. Downloading is suddenly a one-click experience again, instead of having to deal with a separate download client! All that’s needed now is a web browser that can parse a JavaScript app. Going the new route gives some freedom to enable sharing that hasn’t always been practical:…

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  • Thunderbird No More

    Mozilla announced that Thunderbird will no longer be actively developed by the Mozilla folks. Because they don’t see innovation in the email fat client space. Coincidentally I stopped using Thunderbird a couple months ago in favor of a Roundcube based webmail solution for my private email needs (corporate is still Outlook), so I would tend…

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  • How big data might mean better business for big banks

    How big data might mean better business for big banks: interesting vision how banks and credit card companies can use publicly available data and big analytics to separate bad from good risks for the retail lending business. There are some more links in that article that are worth following. I think some might already be…

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  • Clustrix Raises more Money

    Clustrix raised some more millions, reports Techcrunch. With its unique parallel query approach, the distributed database allows you to scale by simply adding nodes—with no upper limit. No application downtime. No sharding. The Clustrix database can scale limitlessly with fault tolerance and full ACID compliance. It’s MySQL compatible and uses MVCC to get around the…

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  • Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly

    Curt Monash (Introduction to MemSQL) and GigaOm (Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly): As its name implies, MemSQL achieves its fast performance in part by keeping data in memory, but it doesn’t use memcached like Facebook does to keep its massive MySQL deployment up to speed. Rather, MemSQL takes a lesson learned from…

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  • The Importance of Software at Oracle

    Stephen O’Grady asks in The Importance of Software at Oracle: If the days of software licensing as a primary revenue mechanism were over […], how would we know? Maybe because of the fact that Oracle did keep Sun’s hardware business?

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  • Introduction to Neo Technology and Neo4j

    Introduction to Neo Technology and Neo4j. Good stuff as usual from Curt Monash, going into a lot of detail about product and company (but not how to use or develop for Neo4j – use Google for that).

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  • Tempo, the data layer for the measured world

    Cool and innovative idea, makes me want to play with it… if just I had an idea what to use it for? Once we connect 50 billion devices to the web […], what will those devices talk to? Chicago Startup Tempo hopes those sensors will take to its database as a service — depositing their…

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