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  • Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics

    David Menninger writes a nice intro to Splunk in Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics: Splunk focuses on a specific segment of the big-data market: machine-generated data. This type of data originates constantly from many sources throughout an organization and in large quantities. The other common characteristic of machine-generated data is that generally it…

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  • “Big data” has jumped the shark

    I’m apparently not the only one having difficulties succinctly defining what Big Data is – let alone is there agreement in the industry, as to what the Big Data category should or should not include, as seen in Monash’s latest rambling “Big data” has jumped the shark. Over time Big Data as a term will…

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  • Oracle Introduces Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack

    You don’t have to wait for long… Oracle Introduces Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack, just days after I blogged about it at Forthcoming Oracle Appliances. Configurations from half rack to several full racks can be combined for massive storage. Interesting that Oracle wants us to use this not only for relational data but all sorts…

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  • Forthcoming Oracle Appliances

    Curt Monash about Forthcoming Oracle appliances, based on information from Oracle’s earnings call (full transcript) last week. There will be an IMDB appliance based on TimesTen for high speed analytics, and a Hadoop appliance for MapReduce jobs, targetted at data preprocessing and feeding into Oracle. It really looks like Oracle is full steam ahead on…

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  • Whitepaper on NoSQL and the Windows Azure Platform

    Good 28 page whitepaper on NoSQL for SQL Server developers, first familiarizing the reader with NoSQL, then showing what NoSQL options there are in the Microsoft and Azure stack. Also a fair bit of positioning and what are appropriate use cases for NoSQL.

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  • SQL Server AlwaysOn in a virtual world

    A nice howto on AlwaysOn, the combined Mirroring and Clustering HA/DR solution in SQL Denali, the next version of SQL.

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  • Greenplum to have it’s own Hadoop Distribution

    Reported and analysed by Tony Baer in OnStrategies Perspectives, and reported by Derrick Harris in GigaOm’s in EMC, NetApp Make It a Big Day for Big Data Star Hadoop, we learn that EMC is using the on-going EMC World conference to its potential, and is announcing that they’re growing the Database division with the decision…

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  • Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit

    Yahoo is considering to turn Hadoop into a business, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Ovum’s Tony Baer has a more detailed analysis at his blog in Yahoo to Hadoop: Show me the Money. In the long run, we also expect IBM to make a stab at Hadoop and related technologies by extending its…

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  • Google’s Megastore

    I don’t think I’ve written about Google’s Megastore yet, so here’s a quick summary of worthwile resources. Megastore is the data engine supporting the Google Application Engine. It’s a scalable structured data store providing full ACID semantics within partitions but lower consistency guarantees across partitions. James Hamilton’s take on Google Megastore: The Data Engine Behind…

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  • RainStor Database Technology Embedded Within HP Investigation Solution

    RainStor Database Technology Embedded Within HP Investigation Solution. I don’t know how many people have a need for investigation solutions, but there are certainly manz who have some requirements that point into the same direction, namely providing on-line (SQL) access to large amounts of relatively structured information (think logs or messages) for a long time…

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