Tag: Database
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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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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.… Continued
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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.… Continued
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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 tiny bits of time series data inside its custom database.… Continued
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SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available!
SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available!
A few customers requested updates in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP3 are:
- Enhanced upgrade experience from previous versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008 SP3. In addition, we have increased the performance & reliability of the setup experience.
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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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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.… Continued
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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 a new class of DBMS.… Continued