Tag: DBMS
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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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NoSQL Updates
There’s a lot going on in the NoSQL world, or maybe Derrick Harris was just exceptionally busy last night… EMC throws lots of hardware at Hadoop DataStax gets $11M, fuses NoSQL and Hadoop Neo raises $10.6M for Neo4j as graph DBs take off NoSQL Database Company Neo Technology Raises $10.6 Million Wow!
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Focus on Big Data and Exadata Mini
Oracle Openworld must be close, because the rumour mill starts heating up… Piper Jaffray is predicting that Oracle will release an Exadata Mini machine that will fit under ones desk (via DBMS2). And Jean-Pierre Dijcks compiled a list of Big Data related sessions at Openworld, Big Data may very well be the key note topic,…
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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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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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