Tag: Database
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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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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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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. In SQL Server Integration Services logs will now show…
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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. 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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Sybase ASE 15.7 Released
Some Sybase PR about their latest release: Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7 Boosts Performance and Lowers Cost of Managing Exploding Data Volumes ASE 15.7 further reduces cost of operations by simplifying administration and enhancing system security, providing a database manager that remains easy to manage while protecting against intrusion. ASE 15.7’s online operations and extended…
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Commercial Extensions for MySQL
Oracle’s MySQL Blog reports about New Commercial Extensions for MySQL Enterprise Edition: MySQL 5.5 GA and MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Releases have delivered many new compelling features to the MySQL users and community for testing, feedback and use. In addition, commercial customers have access to a number of commercial extensions already included in MySQL Enterprise…
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