Tag: DBMS
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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 to sell their own Hadoop distribution with value add management tools and integration.… Continued
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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 InfoSphere offerings -– it can see Cloudera-Informatica and Cloudera-MicroStrategy raise it one with its own InfoSphere DataStage and Cognos offerings, before it even talks about partnerships.… Continued
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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.… Continued
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Necessity is the mother of NoSQL
The 451 group’s Matt Aslett argues that Necessity is the mother of NoSQL.
Necessity is particularly relevant when looking at the history of the NoSQL databases. While it is easy for the incumbent database vendor to dismiss the various NoSQL projects as development playthings, it is clear that the vast majority of NoSQL projects were developed by companies and individuals in response to the fact that the existing database products and vendors were not suitable to meet their requirements with regards to the other five factors: scalability, performance, relaxed consistency, agility and intricacy.… Continued
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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 (up to ten years or more).… Continued
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April 2011 Critical Patch Update Released
Already 3 months gone by? April 2011 Critical Patch Update Released (direct link to Database vulnerabilities). Mostly obscure components that aren’t in widespread use in the DB world, but who knows…
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State of the MySQL Ecosystem
Brian Aker wrote a good article about MySQL, State of the Ecosystem on his blog. Glad to see a key figure for MySQL be positive about the future of the ecosystem!
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How will the DB incumbents respond to NoSQL and NewSQL?
The 451 Group recently released a report about “How will the database incumbents respond to NoSQL and NewSQL?” Unfortunately it’s only available to their subscribers, so I can’t get the details… anyway – they followed up with a blog post What we talk about when we talk about NewSQL, which includes a pretty complete list of companies and technologies that we have to watch outside the established RDBMS vendors.… Continued