Category: Technology
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Oracle doing Hadoop and NoSQL
Oracle docs show plans for Hadoop, NoSQL about the Oracle Loader for Hadoop, and Added Session: Big Data Appliance about Oracle’s Big Data Appliance.
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Cloud Databases
A quick aggregation of Cloud Database (or DBaaS) related articles I found in my feed reader… Native Cloud Databases – Why Should You Care? NuoDB’s Jim Starkey is Creating a Brave New World by Rethinking Databases for the Cloud DBaaS vs. DaaS vs. Cloud Storage – What’s the difference? Postgres Plus® Cloud Server – for a…
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Hadoop Update
There are a few articles collecting dust in my feed reader from a period a couple months ago when I didn’t have much time staying up to date on what’s happening… here’s the rundown of the most important stuff about Hadoop. What Factors Justify the Use of Apache Hadoop? Hadoop Appliances? Hardware for Hadoop Why…
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Traditional SQL DaaS or NewSQL
Mike Hogan uses the following to suggest a move to NewSQL: Lack of Business Visibility Cripples Traditional SQL DaaS, Drives NewSQL. the shift to a database as a service (DaaS) severely reduces the DBAs visibility into the business, thus limiting the ability to hand tune the database to the requirements of the application and the…
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(Big) Data Pyramid
Something not completely technical – but still relevant: Is That Information…And Do I Care? the discussion of how data and information relate actually continues to knowledge and wisdom as well. We’ve summarized the distinction between these concepts below based on Hey’s paper and Dr. Russell Ackoff work with one of the most common representations of…
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MongoDB used in SAP’s PaaS Offering
And another one leaving the relational world for their DBaaS offering. It’s probably easier to manage as a service than Oracle… Today SAP announced that they are using MongoDB as a core component of SAP’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. MongoDB was selected for the enterprise content management (ECM) section of the platform, as its flexibility and…
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Oracle Database Appliance
Exadata Mini is the Oracle DB Appliance (ODBA?), as Oracle announced now. It turns out that Oracle’s new small appliance isn’t really an Exadata Mini-Me. Rather, the Oracle Database Appliance is — well, it seems to be a box with an Oracle DBMS in it. Plus Oracle RAC and so on. via Oracle Database Appliance…
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Cloud DaaS Managed Service Fuels NewSQL Market
Spot on article about Database as a Service Cloud DaaS Managed Service Fuels NewSQL Market: While this sounds simple, public cloud companies soon learn that the Devil is in the details. Managing someone else’s database, without insight into their business processes, performance demands, scaling demands, evolving application requirements, and more, is extremely challenging and demands…
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NoSQL Updates
There’s a lot going on in the NoSQL world, or maybe Derrick Harris was just exceptionally busy last night… EMC throws lots of hardware at Hadoop DataStax gets $11M, fuses NoSQL and Hadoop Neo raises $10.6M for Neo4j as graph DBs take off NoSQL Database Company Neo Technology Raises $10.6 Million Wow!
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Focus on Big Data and Exadata Mini
Oracle Openworld must be close, because the rumour mill starts heating up… Piper Jaffray is predicting that Oracle will release an Exadata Mini machine that will fit under ones desk (via DBMS2). And Jean-Pierre Dijcks compiled a list of Big Data related sessions at Openworld, Big Data may very well be the key note topic,…
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