Tag: Cassandra
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DataStax Raises $25 Million in Third Round of Funding
Venture capital pouring into Big Data is not really slowing down… DataStax Raises $25 Million in Third Round of Funding: DataStax today announced the completion of a $25 million C round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital. This latest round of capital comes…
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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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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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NoSQL Ecosystem
Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NoSQL ecosystem in late 2009. He analyzed 10 popular NoSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design. It’s a great read, and still pretty much valid as of today. I stumbled upon it via Emil Eifrem from…
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Keep an RDBMS in Your Back Pocket
Now, depending on your viewpoint, that title could just as well read Keep a Hadoop Cluster in Your Back Pocket. So we’re talking about when it makes sense to combine an old fashioned SQL RDBMS with a fancy and modern NoSQL system from both angles. In defence of SQL (found via myNoSQL) is voting to…
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