Tag: Database
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Meet Mapr, a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera
Meet Mapr, a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera.
They are said to be building a proprietary replacement for the Hadoop Distributed File System that’s allegedly three times faster than the current open-source version. It comes with snapshots and no NameNode single point of failure (SPOF), and is supposed to be API-compatible with HDFS, so it can be a drop-in replacement.… Continued
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Intel’s McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings
Intel’s McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings. That’s not surprising, given that Sentrigo has the best product in that space. Oracle already acquired Secerno last year, so other vendors now have to build their portfolio.… Continued
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Comparing SQL Server with SQL Azure
A good one, if you want to make your application future proof, as MS is working hard to bring stand-alone SQL Server in line with SQL Azure for future releases, and therefore is giving up on some of the concepts available in SQL Server today:
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MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery
MongoDB 1.8 Released, Supports Journaling for Fast Crash Recovery. See more on the MondoDB Journaling page. Good stuff by the Mongo guys, bringing it one step closer to Enterprise readiness.
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Architecting A Database Archiving Solution
Julie Lockner has a series on Architecting A Database Archiving Solution up on the Informatica Perspectives Blog.
Project owners who have done their research understand why they need an archiving solution: either to address performance degradation or increased costs (or both) due to uncontrolled data volume growth in their production databases.… Continued
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Open Source Databases Have Come of Age
Matt Benjamin writes about the OSS DB ecosystem in Open Source Databases Have Come of Age, including NoSQL. Good summary!
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Interview: Kevin Closson on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server
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12g Says Goodbye to Raw
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An Oracle Security Survey by The IOUG and Oracle