Category: Technology
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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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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. In Moving Away from NoSQL: Why Size Matters and Small…
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Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Cassandra’s Jonathan Ellis
The Windows Azure blog has a long and good interview with Jonathan Ellis about Cassandra and a lot of other relevant topics. Take a break to read Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Jonathan Ellis, Co-Founder of Riptano. When asked about Cassandra vs. RDBMS, this following is interesting: I think relational databases are going to…
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Facebook’s New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+ Billion Messages a Month
You’ve likely seen Facebook announcement of it’s new Messaging system. They now also have a blog about The Underlying Technology of Messages. And Todd Hoff is dissecting the blog article and adding some context in Facebook’s New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+ Billion Messages a Month. This is just crazy. I wonder how…
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Oracle Workload Management, No. 2
Another one in the series of Oracle Workload Management posts: Workload Management – Based on Execution Times, about a dynamic switching system based on the optimizer’s estimate of the execution time.
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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!
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Mixpanel Pushes Real-Time Analytics to End Users
Somebody’s taking Microsoft motto of putting BI into the hands of users to the extreme: Mixpanel Pushes Real-Time Analytics to End Users. The new offering from the analytics startup gives customers the ability to offer real-time data to their users, letting them see who’s commenting on their posts, what the click-through rates are on ads,…
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NoSQL Foundation Papers Summarized
At least somebody read through the seminal papers on NoSQL technologies Google BigTable and Amazon Dynamo, and created 18-20 page summary decks to spare us the reading. Check the two decks below. Summary of Google’s Big Table Paper Overview of the Amazon Dynamo Paper
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