Tag: DBMS

  • 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…

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  • Microsoft Graph DB Trinity

    Microsoft published information about it’s research project Trinity, a hypergraph DB. Trinity is a graph database and computation platform over distributed  memory cloud. As a database, it provides features such as highly  concurrent query processing, transaction, consistency control. As a  computation platform, it provides synchronous and asynchronous  batch-mode computations on large scale graphs. Trinity can…

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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. Dave DeWalt, president of McAfee said of the acquisition: McAfee is continuing to broaden its security portfolio to…

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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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  • Survey Shows Poor Performance of Cloud Applications Delays Cloud Adoption

    Check this. Fun the read, quick to forget. Compuware Corporation today announced the findings of a cloud performance survey  conducted by Vanson Bourne. The survey of 677 businesses in North  America and Europe examined the impact application performance has on  cloud application strategy and deployments. The survey reveals that the majority of organizations in both…

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  • Machine Generated Data

    Curt Monash has been trying to define Machine Generated Data (but Daniel Abadi doesn’t fully agree) because machine generated data is what’ll be fuelling a lot of the future growth of DB systems. Understanding MGD and its growth pattern will help design next gen DBMS. Funny enough a recent Economist piece, It’s a smart world,…

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  • 2011 Predictions

    This is the time of the year where everybody is speculating about the next year, so here’s a quick wrap-up of the Data industry’s predictions, in no particular order: TDWI Ramon Chen of RainStor Curt Monash of DBMS2 Noel Yuhanna of Forrester RainStor Informatica Progress DataDirect Riverlogic Steve Sarsfield of Talend That should give you…

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  • EDW Without A Database?

    Forrester’s James Kobelius asks: An Enterprise Data Warehouse Without A Database—Is That Even Conceivable? Turns out the discussion is more around RDBMS vs. non-relational DBMS such as Hadoop, and he’s suggesting that we’ll see a rise of non-relational systems because of the rise of less structured content. Forrester’s school of thought also marks it perfectly…

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