Tag: DBaaS

  • DBSeer: Making Database Cloud Computing more Efficient

    Making cloud computing more efficient: For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance. DBSeer – an open source machine learning algorithm to improve DB performance in VMs, being developed at the MIT.

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  • NuoDB’s Pluggable Cloud Database

    NuoDB’s Pluggable Cloud Database: Pluggable databases give developers and administrators the ability to create a database container and provision multiple databases within that single container. This is also known as multi-tenancy. The cloud environment is a prime candidate for pluggable databases. Shot against Oracle… well done, but not answering the call for Oracle compatibility.

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  • Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?

    Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?: NuoDB has today kicked off that debate with the launch of its Cloud Data Management System and 12 rules for a 21st century cloud database. NuoDB’s 12 rules appear pretty sound to me – in fact you could argue they are somewhat obvious. Monash has a less favorable…

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  • Updated Database Landscape Map

    Updated database landscape graphic: I recently published an updated version but noted that there were a group of database vendors that had emerged in 2012 that didn’t easily fit into the segments we’d created. It’s so much better… Good overview for anybody interested in understanding the DB world beyond just whatever one or two products…

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  • How to Manage 15k Databases with 4 DBAs

    That’s what I’ve been saying forever. Automation rules! Simply put, Xeround’s database apparatus isn’t a case of some watch dogs and scripts that instantiate the database. It’s an orchestra of sorts, designed to handle it all automatically so that our users won’t have to, and so that neither would our employees. We usually say in…

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  • PaaS on Hadoop Yarn

    PaaS on Hadoop Yarn – Idea and Prototype is looking at what’s missing to offer PaaS with Hadoop Yarn: YARN is the next generation Hadoop MapReduce architecture. It is designed to be more flexible architecturally, improve scalability, and achieve a higher resource utilization rate, among other things. Although YARN remains similar to the old Hadoop…

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  • Cloud Databases

    A quick aggregation of Cloud Database (or DBaaS) related articles I found in my feed reader… Native Cloud Databases – Why Should You Care? NuoDB’s Jim Starkey is Creating a Brave New World by Rethinking Databases for the Cloud DBaaS vs. DaaS vs. Cloud Storage – What’s the difference? Postgres Plus® Cloud Server – for a…

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  • Traditional SQL DaaS or NewSQL

    Mike Hogan uses the following to suggest a move to NewSQL: Lack of Business Visibility Cripples Traditional SQL DaaS, Drives NewSQL. the shift to a database as a service (DaaS) severely reduces the DBAs visibility into the business, thus limiting the ability to hand tune the database to the requirements of the application and the…

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  • MongoDB used in SAP’s PaaS Offering

    And another one leaving the relational world for their DBaaS offering. It’s probably easier to manage as a service than Oracle… Today SAP announced that they are using MongoDB as a core component of SAP’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. MongoDB was selected for the enterprise content management (ECM) section of the platform, as its flexibility and…

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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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